 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 494 pages
...maintains, in ease and plenty, a million of husbandmen and artificers, was unable to supply anhun-( dred thousand lazy warriors with the simple necessaries of life || . The Germans abandoned their A a 4 immense _* "• :.,• . i . ,•*• •••• m I **• Tacit. Germ. 14. \i-.Plutarch.inCamillo.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 472 pages
...artificers, was unable to supply an hundred thousand lazy warriors with the simple necessaries of life36. The Germans abandoned their immense forests to the...pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, anfd then accused the scantiness and... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Birth control - 1817 - 524 pages
...period could the country be called well-peopled, though it was often redundant in population. They abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of...pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and when the return of famine severely... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 474 pages
...soi| fertili^d, by the labour of ten centuries from the time of Charlemagne. The same extent of ground which at present maintains, in ease and plenty, a...lazy warriors with the simple necessaries of life. n The Germans abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of hunting, employed in pasturage the... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...fertilized, by the labour of ten centuries from the time of Charlemagne. The same extent of ground, which at present maintains, in ease and plenty, a...of husbandmen and artificers, was unable to supply an hundred thousand lazy warrior» with the simple necessaries of life. The German« abandoned their... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 468 pages
...unable to supply an hundred thousand lazy warriors with the simple necessaries of life.36 The German* abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of...pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and carek-íí cultivation, and then accused the scantiness... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Population - 1826 - 566 pages
...immense forests to the exercise * Tacitus de Moribus Germ. s. xx. t Caesar ile Bell. Gall. vi. 23. of hunting, employed in pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and when the return of famine severely... | |
 | Augustus Henry Moreton - Population - 1836 - 232 pages
...fertilized, by the labour often centuries, since the time of Charlemagne. The same extent of ground which at present maintains, in ease and plenty, a...supply a hundred thousand lazy warriors with the simple * Sir Humphry Davy. 208 necessaries of life."* The desolate and dreary Gaul of the time of the Roman... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1850 - 664 pages
...soil fertilized, by the labor of ten centuries from the time of Charlemagne. The same extent of ground which at present maintains, in ease and plenty, a...pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and then accused the scantiness and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...by the labour of ten centuries from the time of population. Charlemagne. The same extent of ground which at present maintains, in ease and plenty, a...of husbandmen and artificers, was unable to supply an hundred thousand lazy warriors with the simple necessaries of life.36 The Germans abandoned their... | |
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The Germans abandoned their immense forests to the exercise of hunting, employed in pasturage the most considerable part of their lands, bestowed on the small remainder a rude and careless cultivation, and then accused the scantiness and sterility of... 
