英语词汇absolutism tempered by assassination的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	absolutism tempered by assassination
词源	absolutism tempered by assassination; despotism by dynamite. Count Ernst F. Munster (1766–1839), the German en- voy at St. Petersburg, was referring to the Russian Constitution when he said this in 1800, but he claimed that a Russian noble really invented the phrase. Gilbert and Sullivan altered the phrase to despotism by dynamite.
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