 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 - Page 143by Archibald Alison - 1850 - 2060 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1818 - 638 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...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 - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...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 - 720 pages
...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 - Economics - 1837 - 1158 pages
...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 - 864 pages
...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 - Business & Economics - 1840 - 290 pages
...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 - Economics - 1840 - 286 pages
...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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...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 - Europe - 1850 - 680 pages
...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... | |
| |
