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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. "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 262
1827
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...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...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 13

1848 - 468 pages
...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...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 13

1848 - 464 pages
...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...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...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...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...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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