Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... Europe , a large and powerful privileged class trampled on the people and defied the Govern- ment . But in the most flourishing parts of Italy , the feudal nobles were reduced to comparative insignificance . In some districts they took ...
... Europe , a large and powerful privileged class trampled on the people and defied the Govern- ment . But in the most flourishing parts of Italy , the feudal nobles were reduced to comparative insignificance . In some districts they took ...
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... Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth and civilisation as some parts of Italy had attained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real ...
... Europe , our own excepted , have at the present time reached so high a point of wealth and civilisation as some parts of Italy had attained four hundred years ago . Historians rarely descend to those details from which alone the real ...
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... Europe . That foot - soldiers could withstand the charge of heavy cavalry was thought utterly impossible , till , towards the close of the fifteenth century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved the spell , and astounded the ...
... Europe . That foot - soldiers could withstand the charge of heavy cavalry was thought utterly impossible , till , towards the close of the fifteenth century , the rude mountaineers of Switzerland dissolved the spell , and astounded the ...
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... Europe , the vices which peculiarly belong to timid dispositions , and which are the natural defence of weakness , fraud , and hypocrisy , have always been most disreputable . On the other hand , the excesses of haughty and daring ...
... Europe , the vices which peculiarly belong to timid dispositions , and which are the natural defence of weakness , fraud , and hypocrisy , have always been most disreputable . On the other hand , the excesses of haughty and daring ...
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... Europe merry for more than four centuries . He perhaps resembles still more closely Simon da Villa , to whom Bruno and Buffalmacco promised the love of the Countess Civillari . * Nicias is , like Simon , of a learned profession ; and ...
... Europe merry for more than four centuries . He perhaps resembles still more closely Simon da Villa , to whom Bruno and Buffalmacco promised the love of the Countess Civillari . * Nicias is , like Simon , of a learned profession ; and ...
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