The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, Etc, Volume 10American Literary Society, 1901 - Literature |
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Page 5008
... Italy from a race of hardy husbandmen , whose robust virtues conquered the world , into a race of cringing bondsmen ; it was the appropriation of the land as the absolute property of their chieftains which gradually turned the ...
... Italy from a race of hardy husbandmen , whose robust virtues conquered the world , into a race of cringing bondsmen ; it was the appropriation of the land as the absolute property of their chieftains which gradually turned the ...
Page 5013
... Italy , the serfs of Russia and Poland , the peasants of feudal Europe , rendered to their landlords a fixed proportion either of their produce or their labor , and were not generally squeezed past that point . But the influences which ...
... Italy , the serfs of Russia and Poland , the peasants of feudal Europe , rendered to their landlords a fixed proportion either of their produce or their labor , and were not generally squeezed past that point . But the influences which ...
Page 5015
... Italy . Gibbon returned to his father's house in June , 1765. In 1770 Gibbon put forth anonymously " Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Æneid , " being a sharp attack upon Bishop Warburton's " Divine Legation of Moses ...
... Italy . Gibbon returned to his father's house in June , 1765. In 1770 Gibbon put forth anonymously " Critical Observations on the Sixth Book of the Æneid , " being a sharp attack upon Bishop Warburton's " Divine Legation of Moses ...
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... Italy whole troops of hungry and affrighted provincials , less apprehensive of servitude than of famine . The calamities of Rome and Italy dispersed the inhabitants to the most lonely , the most secure , the most distant places of ...
... Italy whole troops of hungry and affrighted provincials , less apprehensive of servitude than of famine . The calamities of Rome and Italy dispersed the inhabitants to the most lonely , the most secure , the most distant places of ...
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... Italy . A long period of distress and an- archy , in which empire , and arts , and riches had migrated from the banks of the Tiber , was incapable of restoring or adorning the city ; and as all that is human must retrograde if it do not ...
... Italy . A long period of distress and an- archy , in which empire , and arts , and riches had migrated from the banks of the Tiber , was incapable of restoring or adorning the city ; and as all that is human must retrograde if it do not ...
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