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Edmund Burke. him to those , who were his originals , the Italian writers of tales and novels , we shall find most even of them drawing from antiquity , or borrowing from the Eastern world , or adopting and deco- rating the little ...
Edmund Burke. him to those , who were his originals , the Italian writers of tales and novels , we shall find most even of them drawing from antiquity , or borrowing from the Eastern world , or adopting and deco- rating the little ...
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... Italy by the Alps . This division is not made by an arbitrary or casual distribution of countries . The limits are marked out by Nature ; and in these early ages were yet further distinguished by a considerable difference in the manners ...
... Italy by the Alps . This division is not made by an arbitrary or casual distribution of countries . The limits are marked out by Nature ; and in these early ages were yet further distinguished by a considerable difference in the manners ...
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... Italy , are peninsulas . By these advantages of situation the inhabitants were preserved from those great and sudden revolutions , to which the northern world had been always liable . And being confined within a space comparatively ...
... Italy , are peninsulas . By these advantages of situation the inhabitants were preserved from those great and sudden revolutions , to which the northern world had been always liable . And being confined within a space comparatively ...
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... Italy from a very remote period . The Gauls and other north- ern nations , envious of their wealth , and despising the effeminacy of their manners , often invaded them with numerous , though ill - formed , armies . But their greatest ...
... Italy from a very remote period . The Gauls and other north- ern nations , envious of their wealth , and despising the effeminacy of their manners , often invaded them with numerous , though ill - formed , armies . But their greatest ...
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... Italy , they pursued them over the Alps ; and carrying the war into the country of their enemy , under several able generals , and at last under Caius Cæsar , they reduced all the Gauls from the Medi- terranean sea to the Rhine and the ...
... Italy , they pursued them over the Alps ; and carrying the war into the country of their enemy , under several able generals , and at last under Caius Cæsar , they reduced all the Gauls from the Medi- terranean sea to the Rhine and the ...
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