Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1B. Tauchnitz, 1850 - 1742 pages |
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Page 40
... 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 stings . But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are ...
... 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 stings . But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are ...
Page 66
... 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 neighbour- ing 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 neighbour- ing countries was the importance which the population of ...
Page 67
... wealth to pamper his mis- tresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the estab- lished religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those ...
... wealth to pamper his mis- tresses and nephews . The doctrines and rites of the estab- lished religion they treated with decent reverence . But though they still called themselves Catholics , they had ceased to be Papists . Those ...
Page 69
... wealth , dominion , and knowledge . The moral and the geographical position of those commonwealths 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 . The moral and the geographical position of those commonwealths 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 74
... wealth and refinement advanced , the system underwent 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 de- cayed . Within eighty years ...
... wealth and refinement advanced , the system underwent 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 de- cayed . Within eighty years ...
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