Italy and the Italian Islands: From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time, Τόμος 1Oliver & Boyd, 1841 - 400 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 302 - Led on the eternal Spring. Not that fair field Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower by gloomy Dis Was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain To seek her through the world...
Σελίδα 345 - Sabinus had been executed by Tiberius, his dog watched the corpse, carried food to its mouth, and on its being thrown into the Tiber, swam after it and strove to bring it to land ; and that in the reign of Claudius a phoenix from Egypt was publicly exhibited in Rome; which last story, however, Pliny truly pronounces to be a manifest invention.
Σελίδα 212 - Umbrian and Etruscan vales, glitters like a belt of gold along the plain, in the sunshine that irradiates with Italian clearness the sward, the scattered trees, and the shadowy hills.
Σελίδα 21 - The valley is about two hundred miles in length, and varies from thirty to sixty in width, being bounded on the north by the Alps, and on the south by the Apennine range of mountains. Throughout its length, and keeping nearest the foot of the southern range, runs the Po, from west to east, a large river; while entering it, and joining this main drainage way, from the bordering mountain regions, are thirty or more other streams, of varied sizes and character...
Σελίδα 343 - ROMAN NEWSPAPERS. THE Romans, though we are apt to overlook the fact, had registers of politics and intelligence, which were really not unlike our own newspapers in their contents, but immeasurably inferior in the mode of circulation. The journals of the Senate and National Conventions long contained little more than entries resembling those in our collected acts of parliament. These furnished most of the materials from which, till 625, the Pontiffs compiled their annals ; and there is also proof...
Σελίδα 365 - Recherches et observations sur le commerce et le luxe des Romains, et sur leurs lois commerciales et somptuaires*, a évité sans doute l'écueil qu'il a signalé.
Σελίδα 344 - Encyclopedia, among which the following may be cited. The gazettes related that on the day when Cicero defended Milo there descended a shower of bricks ; that under Augustus a burgher of...
Σελίδα 35 - We trace them again in those massive architectural remains which are still scattered over the country, from the northern extremity of Tuscany to the southern slopes of the central Appenines. And there was an older race still upon whom these accomplished, ingenious, and hard-working Etrurians intruded, and lubdued.
Σελίδα 343 - ... extended its dominions, those official journals were regularly copied and transmitted to public men living at a distance. But these sources were not enough. Every man abroad had his correspondents in Rome ; and when the task of collecting news became more difficult, several persons assumed newsmongering as a trade, taking, in shorthand, notes of the proceedings at public meetings, and selling copies of them as well as of the common gossip of the day, and the official journals. Julius...
Σελίδα 96 - Capital becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of a few, and the numbers of the idle mass are increased.