Travels in Sicily, Greece and Albania: 1 (1820)Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... seem absolutely to require the strong coercion of monarchical power , whilst the popular deliberative assembly seems better suited to a northern atmosphere , where no violent ebullitions of passion destroy the dignity of debate , or ...
... seem absolutely to require the strong coercion of monarchical power , whilst the popular deliberative assembly seems better suited to a northern atmosphere , where no violent ebullitions of passion destroy the dignity of debate , or ...
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... seems to have consisted in this , that it went too far for the furtherance of tranquillity , and not far enough for the security of civil liberty : it endeavoured to make a representative government amalgamate with feudal rights ...
... seems to have consisted in this , that it went too far for the furtherance of tranquillity , and not far enough for the security of civil liberty : it endeavoured to make a representative government amalgamate with feudal rights ...
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... seems banished by universal consent : it is , indeed , a temple over which the joint Demons of Gambling and Intrigue preside , and on that account is a very favourite resort of the Sicilian nobility and gentry here , if the husband ...
... seems banished by universal consent : it is , indeed , a temple over which the joint Demons of Gambling and Intrigue preside , and on that account is a very favourite resort of the Sicilian nobility and gentry here , if the husband ...
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... seems nearest the truth , amounting to 800,000 souls : of these about 20,000 were citizens , 180,000 free set- tlers , and the rest slaves : this is nearly two - thirds of the whole population of Sicily at the present day . + " altor ...
... seems nearest the truth , amounting to 800,000 souls : of these about 20,000 were citizens , 180,000 free set- tlers , and the rest slaves : this is nearly two - thirds of the whole population of Sicily at the present day . + " altor ...
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... seems to have derived its appellation from the abrupt and craggy ground through which it flowed , év ra ya ăкpa - See also an epigram quoted by Diogenes La- ertius , lib . viii . : ΤὮ φίλοι οι μέγα ἄτυ κατὰ ξανθῆ Ακράγαντος Νάμετε ΑΚΡΑ ...
... seems to have derived its appellation from the abrupt and craggy ground through which it flowed , év ra ya ăкpa - See also an epigram quoted by Diogenes La- ertius , lib . viii . : ΤὮ φίλοι οι μέγα ἄτυ κατὰ ξανθῆ Ακράγαντος Νάμετε ΑΚΡΑ ...
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