 ... been turned by skill and industry into gardens, and can boast of a long list of heroes and statesmen, philosophers and poets. Whoever, knowing what Italy and Scotland naturally are, and what, four hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare...  Mercersburg Review - Page 2071851Full view - About this book
 | England - 1850 - 92 pages
...hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to...degradation — the elevation of Holland, in spite of many disadvantages, to a position which no commonwealth so small has ever reached — teach the same lesson.... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pages
...hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to the tendency of the Papal domination. The descent of Spain, once the first among monarchies, to the lowest depths of... | |
 | Charles Smith Bird - 1851 - 476 pages
...poverty, in political servitude, and intellectual " torpor. While Protestant countries, once pro" verbial for sterility and barbarism, have been " turned by...to form "some judgment as to the tendency of Papal dom" inatiou. The descent of Spain, once the first " among monarchies, to the lowest depths of degra"... | |
 | British nation - 1851 - 208 pages
...hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form 'some judgment as...tendency of papal domination. The descent of Spain, the first among monarchies, to the lowest depths of degradation ; the elevation of Holland, in spite... | |
 | Charles Smith Bird - 1851 - 464 pages
...four " hundred years ago, they actually were, should now " compare the country around Rome with the s' country around Edinburgh, will be able to form "some judgment as to the tendency of Papal dom" ination. The descent of Spain, once the first " among monarchies, to the lowest depths of degra"... | |
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 748 pages
...hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to...disadvantages, to a position such as no commonwealth so gmall has ever reached, teach the same lesson. 'Whoever passes in Germany, from a Roman Catholic to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1855 - 556 pages
...hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to...many natural disadvantages, to a position such as nO common•vealth so small has ever readied, teach the same lesson. Whoever passes, in Germany, from... | |
 | Edward Beecher - 1855 - 456 pages
...hundred years ago, they actually were, shall now compare the country round Rome with the country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to...descent of Spain, once the first among monarchies, tq the lowest depths of degradation, the elevation of Holland, in spite of many natural disadvantages,... | |
 | John MacNaught - 1856 - 366 pages
...years ago, they actually were, '* shall now compare the country round Rome with the " country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some "judgment as...the lowest depths of degradation, the elevation of Hol" land, in spite of many natural disadvantages, to a " position such as no commonwealth so small... | |
 | John Macnaught - 1856 - 398 pages
...compare the country round Rome with the " country round Edinburgh, will be able to form some " J udgment as to the tendency of Papal domination. The " descent...the lowest depths of degradation, the elevation of Hol" land, in spite of many natural disadvantages, to a " position such as no commonwealth so small... | |
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