 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pàgines
...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 greater degree than any other part of Westeri) Europe, the traces of ancient civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 pàgines
...discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centimes 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 - 1846 - 782 pàgines
...discussing it at some length. Daring the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall d t be/ore the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon. It was in the time of... | |
 | 1848 - 468 pàgines
...connect the train of ancient with that of modern civilization ; for, as one has beautifully said, " The night which descended upon her was the night of...reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." Another grand purpose, doubtless was, the coalescing and uniting the nations under one supreme... | |
 | 1848 - 464 pàgines
...connect the train of ancient with that of modern civilization ; for, as one has beautifully said, " The night which descended upon her was the night of...reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." Another grand purpose, doubtless was, the coalescing and uniting the nations under one supreme... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pàgines
...discussing it at some length. During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall Catholicism. We wish that we could think so. But we...whether this be a well-founded expectation. ܚ horizon. It was in the time of the French Merovingians, and of the Saxon Heptarchy, that ignorance... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pàgines
...at some length. Durin? the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Rnman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pàgines
...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...which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer:—the dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from... | |
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During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which followed the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy had preserved, in a far greater degree than any other part of Western Europe, the traces of ancient civilization. 
