... of the several parts of the earth has advanced or prevented the moral and intellectual progress of their respective inhabitants. The boundless and unmanageable mass of earth presented by the continents of Asia and Africa has caused those parts of... The history of the Peloponnesian war - Page 529by Thucydides - 1847Full view - About this book
| Thomas Arnold - 1846 - 588 pages
...inhabitants. The boundless and unmanageable mass of earth presented by the continents of Asia and Africa has caused those parts of the world, which started...of civilization, to remain almost at the point from \vhence they set out ; while Europe and America, penetrated by so many seas, and communicating with... | |
| 1846 - 492 pages
...inhabitants. The boundless and unmanageable mass of earth presented by the continents of Asia and Africa has caused those parts of the world, which started the earliest in the race of civilisation, to remain almost at the point from whence they set out ; while Europe and America, penetrated... | |
| Thomas Arnold - Education - 1858 - 560 pages
...i)art> ot Ae a*1">- unmanageable mass ot earth presented by ") ^— < the continents of Asia and Afric^ has caused those parts 'of the world, which started the earliest in the race of civil. ^ 7 ization, to remain almost at the point from wlience they set out; while Europe and America,... | |
| 1863 - 568 pages
...world. " The boundless and unmanageable mass of earth presented by the continents of Asia and Africa has caused those parts of the world, which started...Europe and America, penetrated by so many seas, and communicated with them by so many rivers, have been subdued to the uses of civilization, and have ministered... | |
| Hastings Rashdall - 1877 - 596 pages
...inhabitants. The boundless and unmanageable mass of earth presented by the continents of Asia and Africa has caused those parts of the world, which started...of civilization, to remain almost at the point from which they set out; while Europe and America, penetrated by so many seas, and communicating with them... | |
| University of St. Andrews - 1896 - 610 pages
...PROSE. The boundless and unmanageable mass of earth presented by the continents of Asia and Africa has caused those parts of the world, which started the earliest in the race of civilisation, to remain almost at the point from which they set out, while Europe and America, penetrated... | |
| |