 | Henry Hallam - 1818 - 554 sayfa
...p'olicj^ has been greatly exaggerated. The balance of power established in Europe, and above all in Itaty, maintained for the two last centuries states of small...statesmanship was exhibited to contempt ; too blind to PART II. avert danger, too cowardly to withstand it, the most ancient govern- CHAP, ment of Europe... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1822 - 624 sayfa
...countries so dear to the imagination, her magnanimous defence in the war of Chioggia, a few thinly ITALY. scattered names of illustrious men, will rise upon...made not an instant's resistance; the peasants of Under^ wald died upon their mountains; the nobles of Venice clung only to their lives.* * See in the... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1835 - 476 sayfa
...monuments of extinguished greatness, a traveller may regret to think that an insolent iierman soldiery lias replaced even the senators of Venice. Her ancient...made not an instant's resistance ; the peasants of Underwakl died upon their mountains ; the nobles of Venice clung only to their lives (1). Territorial... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1838 - 584 sayfa
...attains success and honour. " In " the ultimate crisis of Venetian liberty," says Hallam finely, " her solemn mockery of statesmanship was exhibited to "...contempt ; too blind to avert danger, too cowardly to with" stand it, the most ancient government of Europe made not " the least resistance ; (he peasants... | |
 | Marguerite Countess of Blessington - 1851 - 254 sayfa
...remember (continued Byron), being struck by a passage, where, touching on the Venetians, he writes — ' Too blind to avert danger, too cowardly to withstand...made not an instant's resistance : the peasants of TJnderwald died upon their mountains — the nobles of Venice clung only to their lives.' This is the... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1854 - 386 sayfa
...maledictions of their countrymen, and the contempt of their enemies. "Too blind," as has been finely said, " to avert danger, too cowardly to withstand it, the most ancient government of Europe made not a moment's resistance : the peasants of Unterwalden died upon then- mountains, the nobles of Venice... | |
 | John Edmund Reade - 1857 - 296 sayfa
...thou crushed at once ? " " In the ultimate crisis of Venetian liberty," finely observes Hallam, " her solemn mockery of statesmanship was exhibited to contempt;...it, the most ancient government of Europe made not the least resistance. The peasants of Underwalden died upon their mountains; the nobles of Venice clung... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1864 - 498 sayfa
...mingle with his indignation at the treachery which robbed her of her independence. But if he has fearned the true attributes of wisdom in civil policy, he...danger, too cowardly to withstand it, the most ancient governinent of Europe made not an instant's resistance; the peasants of Underwald died upon their mountains... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1904 - 800 sayfa
...and impressive. I remember being struck by a passage, where, touching on the Venetians, he writes, "Too blind to avert danger, too cowardly to withstand...made not an instant's resistance: the peasants of Unterwald died upon their mountains — the nobles of Venice clung only to their lives." This is the... | |
 | 1904 - 886 sayfa
...impunity for its own assassinations by encouraging dissoluteness in private life. In the ultimate crisis of Venetian liberty, that solemn mockery of statesmanship...too blind to avert danger, too cowardly to withstand (1) Sismondi. History of Italian Republics, V., p. 443. (2) P. 52. (3) P. 144. it, the most ancient... | |
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... system of government that made vice the ally of tyranny, and sought impunity for its own assassinations by encouraging dissoluteness of private life. Perhaps too the wisdom so often imputed to the senate in its foreign policy has been greatly exaggerated.... 
