Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 380 pages |
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Page 45
... wealth , made them happy in love and victorious in war . Such a spirit is Liberty . At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile . She grovels , she hisses , she stings . But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ...
... wealth , made them happy in love and victorious in war . Such a spirit is Liberty . At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile . She grovels , she hisses , she stings . But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ...
Page 72
... wealth , of information , of physical comfort , and of social order , than could be found in Gaul , Britain , or Germany . That which most distinguished Italy from the neighbouring countries was the importance which the population of ...
... wealth , of information , of physical comfort , and of social order , than could be found in Gaul , Britain , or Germany . That which most distinguished Italy from the neighbouring countries was the importance which the population of ...
Page 74
... wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual ...
... wealth to pamper his mistresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those spiritual ...
Page 75
... wealth , dominion , and knowledge . moral and geographical position of those common- wealths enabled them to profit alike by the barbarism of the West and by the civilisation of the East . Italian ships covered every sea . Italian ...
... wealth , dominion , and knowledge . moral and geographical position of those common- wealths enabled them to profit alike by the barbarism of the West and by the civilisation of the East . Italian ships covered every sea . Italian ...
Page 81
... wealth and refinement advanced , the system under- went a gradual alteration . The Ionian States were the first in which commerce and the arts were cultivated , and the first in which the ancient discipline decayed . Within eighty years ...
... wealth and refinement advanced , the system under- went a gradual alteration . The Ionian States were the first in which commerce and the arts were cultivated , and the first in which the ancient discipline decayed . Within eighty years ...
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