 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pagine
...that Gothic edifice, a conspicuous place must be allowed to the crusades. The estates of the barons were dissipated, and their race was often extinguished,...the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conCHAP, flagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the T VI ' ' forest, gave air... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 474 pagine
...place must be allowed to the crnsades. The estates of the barons were dissipated, and thenrace were often extinguished, in these costly and perilous expeditions....the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pagine
...aristocracy, by dissipating the fortunes of the barons, and in some cases extinguishing their race. ' Their poverty extorted • from their pride those...the most numerous and useful part of the community.' The increase of the monarchical power and prerogative, in some cases by lapsed fiefs, in others by... | |
 | 1822 - 206 pagine
...system, a conspicuous place must be allowed to the crusades. The estates of the barons were dissip_ated, and their race was often extinguished in these costly...the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the... | |
 | 1822 - 394 pagine
...place must be allowed to the crusades. The estates of the barons were dissipated, and their race ivas often extinguished in these costly and perilous expeditions....the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 364 pagine
...of the barons were dissipated, and their race " often extinguished, in these costly and peri" lous expeditions. Their poverty extorted " from their pride...most numerous " and useful part of the community. The " conflagration which destroyed the tall and " bari'en trees of the forest, gave air and scope... | |
 | Robert Aglionby Slaney - 1824 - 262 pagine
...Barons were dissipated, and their race often " extinguished, in these costly and perilous " enterprises. Their poverty extorted from " their pride those charters...most numerous and useful " part of the community." And a celebrated historian of our own times, in treating on this subject, thus describes the advantages... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1829 - 482 pagine
...crusades. The estates of the barons were dissipated, and their race was often extinguished, in those costly and perilous expeditions. Their poverty extorted...the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the... | |
 | George Miller - 1832 - 518 pagine
...their pride those charters of freedom, which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm uf the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually...consequences of the crusades as altogether beneficial 8 . Composing his ' View of the Progress of Society in Europe,' and perceiving that this progress was... | |
 | 1836 - 418 pagine
...refuge in them." In the language of an elegant writer, " it was the poverty of the feudal lords which extorted from their pride those charters of freedom...and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of community." Thus has the power of wealth contributed to the triumph of equality, by breaking up hereditary... | |
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Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part... 
