| Sir Archibald Alison - 1852 - 656 страници
...weight of debts and taxes, to which all the contemporary annalists ascribe the ruin of the Empire. And as if Providence had intended to reveal in the...affairs, the resurrection of mankind from the ruin which these causes had produced was owing to the directly opposite set of agencies being put in operation.... | |
| Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1852 - 892 страници
...tells us that " the fall of the Roman empire, so long ascribed, in ignorance, to slavery, heathenism, and moral corruption, was in reality brought about by a decline in the gold and silver mines of Spain and Greece !" (p. 31.) A man must be wedded indeed to his own fancies,... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1854 - 666 страници
...weight of debts and taxes, to which all the contemporary annalists ascribe the ruin of the Empire. And as if Providence had intended to reveal in the...affairs, the resurrection of mankind from the ruin which these causes had produced was owing to the directly opposite set of agencies being put in operation.... | |
| 1854 - 544 страници
...The fall of the Roman empire,' he affirms, ' so long ascribed in ignorance to slavery, heathenism, and moral corruption, was in reality brought about by a decline in the gold and silver mines of Spain and Greece, from which the precious metals for the circulation of the... | |
| William Douglas Hamilton - 1855 - 164 страници
...Nnpoleon in 181 5 to the accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852, by sir Archibald Alison. heathenism, and moral corruption, was in reality brought about by a decline in the gold and silver mines of Spain and Greece, from which the precious metals for the circulation of the... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1877 - 578 страници
...of society. The fall of the Roman Empire,1 so long ascribed, in ignorance, to slavery, heathenism, and moral corruption, was in reality brought about...affairs, the resurrection of mankind from the ruin which these causes had produced was owing to the directly opposite set of agencies being put in operation.... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1877 - 580 страници
...of society. The fall of the Roman Empire,1 so long ascribed, in ignorance, to slavery, heathenism, and moral corruption, was in reality brought about by a decline in the silver and gold mines of Spam and Greece. And as if Providence had intended to t reveal in the clearest manner the influence... | |
| Robert William Hughes - 1879 - 236 страници
...medium of society. The fall of the Roman Empire, so long ascribed in ignorance to slavery, heathenism and moral corruption, was in reality brought about...ruin which those causes had produced was owing to the directly opposite set of agencies being put in operation. Columbus led the way in the career of... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - 1879 - 366 страници
...the Roman Empire," says Sir Arch. Alison, ' ' so long ascribed, in ignorance, to slavery, heathenism, and moral corruption, was in reality brought about by a decline in the gold and silver mines of Spain and Greece, from which the precious metals for the circulation of the... | |
| William Darrah Kelley - 1882 - 82 страници
...medium of society. The fall of the Roman Empire, so long ascribed, in ignorance, to slavery, heathenism, and moral corruption, was in reality brought about by a decline in the gold and silver mines of Spain and Greece, from which the precious metals for the circulation of the... | |
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