 Asia, by the desolating hand of power. The tyranny which, on every favourable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobility had not been brave and free. So far as...  Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous - Sivu 143tekijä(t) Archibald Alison - 1850 - 2060 sivuaKoko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | 1818
...desolating hand of power. The tyranny, which, on every favourable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobility had not been brave and free. So far as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the spirit... | |
 | 1831
...possess, or that distinguishes us from the Asiatic people — our laws, our liberties, our religion — have been preserved by the barrier of the feudal aristocracy....battle of European freedom on the fields of Palestine t Who expelled the Arabs from Spain, and maintained for eight centuries an uninterrupted contest with... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829
...ham' <-.:' power. The tyranny which, on every favorable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobility had not been brave and free. So far as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the spirit... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1835
...as in the Asiatic monarchies, by the desolating hand of power : fully as we must admit that tyranny would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobles had not been brave and free, still it is obvious that it was an institution suited only to a... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1837 - 736 sivua
...desolating hand of power. The tyranny which, on every favourable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, thc nobility had not been brave and free. So far as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839
...hanJ c:' power. The tyranny which, on every favorable moment, was breaking through ¡ill barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, tht nobility had not been brave and free. So far as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1840 - 292 sivua
...desolating hand of power. The tyranny which, on every favourable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobility had not been brave and free. So far as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the spirit... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - 1840
...desolating hand of power. The tyranny which, on every favourable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobility had not been brave and free. So far as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the spirit... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1843 - 832 sivua
...desolating hand of power. The tyranny which, on every favourable moment, was breaking through all barriers, would have rioted without control, if, when the people were poor and disunited, the nobility had not been brave and free. So iar as the sphere of feudality extended, it diffused the spirit... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 2060 sivua
...possess, or that distinguishes us from the Asiatic people — our laws, our liberties, our religion — have been preserved by the barrier of the feudal aristocracy....disunited, the barons had not been independent and free."-i' What was it that enabled European valour to stem the torrent of Mahometan conquest ? Who... | |
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