 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 484 էջ
...and useful part of the community. ,_ '_^_. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barv rcn trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil. Digression on the Family ofC-ourtenay. THE purple of three... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 474 էջ
...restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation wf the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil. Digression on the family of Courtenay. THE purple... | |
 | 1822 - 394 էջ
...restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil." The limits of an essay do not permit me to dilate upon the... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 էջ
...undermined that Gothic edifice, a conspicuous place mast be allowed to the crusades. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil. Gibbon. acts. WALTER, THE PENNYLESS, departs from France,... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - 1841 - 376 էջ
...often extinguished in the costly and perilous expeditions of the Crusades, he says, " The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil."t Accordingly, after the conclusion of the war caused * See... | |
 | Matthew Habershon - 1841 - 368 էջ
...often extinguished in the costly and perilous expeditions of the Crusades, he says, " The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil."t Accordingly, after the conclusion of the war caused by... | |
 | 1841 - 534 էջ
...rest of Europe. Gibbon closes his observations upon the crusades by saying, that the conflagration, which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air and room to the nutritive plants of the soil; a metaphor which Professor Smyth interprets by the overthrow... | |
 | P A. Beddome - 1844 - 280 էջ
...manners and state of property at this period ? Gibbon answers this question by a beautiful illustration. "The conflagration," says he, "which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest, gave air •»'' 78 INFLUENCE OF THB CRUSADES. scope to the vegetation of the nutritive plants of the soil;"... | |
 | Charles John Abraham (bp. of Wellington, N.Z.) - 1845 - 174 էջ
...altogether) refutes himself by a beautiful illustration of this fact. " The conflagration, which de" stroyed the tall and barren trees of " the forest, gave air...vegetation of the nutritive plants of "the soil." The progress of commerce (especially amongst the Venetians and Genoese); the refinement of manners,... | |
 | Martin Ruter - 1845 - 458 էջ
...restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community. The conflagration which destroyed the tall and barren trees of the forest gave air and scope to the vegetation of the smaller and nutritive plants of the soil." ( Gibbon's Decline and Fall, vol. 4.) After his expedition... | |
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Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part... 
