 | 1827 - 790 páginas
...civilization. The night 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 the hori/xin. It was in the time of the French Merovingians, and of the Saxon Heptarchy, that ignorance... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer : — the dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding...their worst. Yet even then the Neapolitan provinces, recognising the authority of the Eastern Empire, preserved something of Eastern knowledge and refinement.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 páginas
...which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer : — the dawn began to reappear be/ore recognising the authority of the Eastern Empire, preserved something of Eastern knowledge and refinement.... | |
 | 1848 - 468 páginas
...beautifully said, " The night 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 the horizon." Another grand purpose, doubtless was, the coalescing and uniting the nations under one supreme power,... | |
 | 1848 - 464 páginas
...beautifully said, " The night 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 the horizon." Another grand purpose, doubtless was, the coalescing and uniting the nations under one supreme power,... | |
 | 1852 - 780 páginas
...civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer : — the dawn began recognising the authority of the Eastern Empire, preserved something of Eastern knowledge and refinement.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer: — the dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding...ferocity seemed to have done their worst. Yet even lh?ii the Neapolitan provinces, recognising the authority of the Eastern Empire, preserved something... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer: — the dawn began the recognising the authority of the Eastern Empire, preserved something of Eastern knowledge and refinement.... | |
 | William Hanna - 1858 - 390 páginas
...regarding Italy, " The night which descended upon her was the night of an Arctic summer. The dawn began to re-appear before the last reflection of the preceding sunset had faded from the horizon." a We know that the Grammatici flourished in the middle ages in the Greek Empire, and it is probable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 páginas
...civilization. The night which descended upon her was the night of an arctic summer: — the dawn began to reappear before the last reflection of the preceding...their worst. Yet even then the Neapolitan provinces, recognising the authority of the Eastern Empire, preserved something of Eastern knowledge and refinement.... | |
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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 civilisation. 
