| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 sider
...discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far...last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded fromthe horizon. It was in the time of the French Merovingians and of the Saxon Heptarchy that ignorance... | |
| 1897 - 668 sider
...ancient civilization had been preserved in a far greater degree than in any other part of western Europe. The night which descended upon her was the night of...reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." The school of Salerno became the cradle of the Italian pre-eminence in medicine, which was... | |
| 1882 - 566 sider
...greater degree than any other city the traces of ancient civilization. The night, it has been said, which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. [ The dawn began to reappear ere the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. A stream, narrow indeed,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 sider
...in a far greater degree than any other pert erf Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began te reappear before the lost reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. It was in... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 sider
...discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall oncile him to those whom he had most offended and provoked, and continued to his pert of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation. The night which doceiided upon her was... | |
| World - 1884 - 560 sider
...half-forgotten splendour, for " during the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far...other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilisation. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 sider
...countryman of our own. Cardinal Pole. The author of the Anti-Maeltiavelli waa a French Protestant. Evangelist, and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp civilisation. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began... | |
| James J. Treacy - 1885 - 420 sider
...centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater extent than any other part of Western Europe, the traces...reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. It was in the time of the French Merovingians, and of the Saxon Heptarchy, that ignorance... | |
| Patrick Francis Moran - 1890 - 318 sider
...less explicit : " During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Eoman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree...reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. . . . Eome, protected by the sacred character of its Pontiffs, enjoyed at least comparative... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 sider
...gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall cf the Roman Empire, Italy had preeerred, hi ieve that so extraordinary a man as Bacon could be...all the founders of arbitrary governments and fal horizon. Itwasinthetime State oí Italy. , n ,, , ,, of the rrench Merovingians, and of the Saxon Heptarchy,... | |
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