"Kick down" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... consummate skill by governing Florence through a party created and raised to influence by himself. The jealousy of these adherents formed the chief difficulty with which his son Piero had to contend. Unless the Medici could manage to kick down the ladder whereby they had risen, they ran the risk of losing all. As on a former occasion, so now they profited by the mistakes of their antagonists. Three chief men of their own party, Diotisalvi Neroni, ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds |
