The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poverty, in political servitude, and in intellectual torpor, while Protestant countries, once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, have been turned by skill and industry... The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: History of England - Página 38 por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 Vista completa -
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