The Strength of Nations: An Historical RetrospectSmith, Elder & Company, 1859 - 300 Seiten |
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... Rome . * But the fact that Greece did maintain her independence against the great Persian invasion proves that her subdivision into numerous independent States was not the cause of her ultimate ruin . That cause must , I think , be ...
... Rome . * But the fact that Greece did maintain her independence against the great Persian invasion proves that her subdivision into numerous independent States was not the cause of her ultimate ruin . That cause must , I think , be ...
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... Rome , a great empire . But the fact that the feeling of the Romans on this point ( of whom Bacon truly says that never any State was so open to receive strangers into their body as were the Romans ) did not preserve them at last from ...
... Rome , a great empire . But the fact that the feeling of the Romans on this point ( of whom Bacon truly says that never any State was so open to receive strangers into their body as were the Romans ) did not preserve them at last from ...
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... Rome was brought to a just equilibrium , under which there was no insurmount- able obstruction to merit . The republic was thus managed for several ages without internal discord . But as wealth and luxury increased , especially after ...
... Rome was brought to a just equilibrium , under which there was no insurmount- able obstruction to merit . The republic was thus managed for several ages without internal discord . But as wealth and luxury increased , especially after ...
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... Rome enjoyed the advantages of a combina- tion of the oligarchical government of Sparta and the democratical government of Athens , it afterwards suffered at once from the evils of both kinds of government . In this state of things the ...
... Rome enjoyed the advantages of a combina- tion of the oligarchical government of Sparta and the democratical government of Athens , it afterwards suffered at once from the evils of both kinds of government . In this state of things the ...
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... Rome was forced to depend on the provinces , both for supplies of provisions , and of men to recruit her armies . * Hence Pliny may be considered as having correctly pointed out at least one of the prin- cipal symptoms of the great ...
... Rome was forced to depend on the provinces , both for supplies of provisions , and of men to recruit her armies . * Hence Pliny may be considered as having correctly pointed out at least one of the prin- cipal symptoms of the great ...
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Seite 1 - When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace ; but when a stronger than he shall come upon him and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
Seite 276 - ... the Spaniards comforted themselves with the belief, that they were devils, and not men, who had destroyed them in such a manner. So much a strong resolution of bold and courageous men can bring to pass, that no resistance...
Seite 174 - Sandwich, among other things, that of all the old army now you cannot see a man begging about the streets ; but what ? You shall have this captain turned a shoemaker; the lieutenant, a baker ; this a brewer ; that a haberdasher ; this common soldier, a porter ; and every man in his apron and frock, &c., as if they never had done any thing else : whereas, the others go with their belts and swords, swearing, and cursing, and stealing; running into people's houses, by force oftentimes, to carry away...
Seite 227 - The widow is gathering nettles for her children's dinner ; a perfumed Seigneur, delicately lounging in the CEil-de-Bceuf, has an alchemy whereby he will extract from her the third nettle, and name it Rent and Law: such an arrangement must end.
Seite 267 - ... a set of the greatest geniuses for government that the world ever saw embarked together in one common cause...
Seite 222 - He married my sisters with five pound, or twenty nobles apiece, so that he brought them up in godliness and fear of God. He kept hospitality for his poor neighbours, and some alms he gave to the poor. And all this he did of the said farm, where he that now hath it payeth sixteen pound by year or more, and is not able to do anything for his prince, for himself, nor for his children, or give a cup of drink to the poor.
Seite 221 - My father was a yeoman and had no lands of his own, only he had a farm of three or four pound by year at the uttermost, and hereupon he tilled so much as kept half a dozen men. He had walk for a hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine.
Seite 243 - But in other, and in but too many instances, the glens of the Highlands have been drained, not of their superfluity of population, but of the whole mass of the inhabitants, dispossessed by an unrelenting avarice, which will be one day found to have been as shortsighted as it is unjust and selfish.
Seite 149 - And accordingly we find one, among the laws of William the Conqueror,(/) which in the king's name commands and firmly enjoins the personal attendance of all knights and others ; " quod habeant et teneant se semper in armis et equis, ut decet et oportet: et quod semper sint prompti et parati ad servitium suum integrum nobis explendum et peragendum, cum opus adfuerit, secundum quod debent feodis et tenementis suis de jure nobis faceré.
Seite 183 - Like ours, it should wholly be composed of natural subjects; it ought only to be enlisted for a short and limited time ; the soldiers also should live intermixed with the people; no separate camp, no barracks, no inland fortresses should be allowed. And perhaps it might be still better, if, by dismissing a stated number and enlisting others at every renewal of their term, a circulation could be kept up between the army and the people, and the citizen and the soldier be more intimately connected together.