Corsica in Its Picturesque, Social, and Historical Aspects: The Record of a Tour in the Summer of 1852, Volume 1Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 - 493 páginas |
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... nature , which struck even the philosopher Seneca as so remarkable in the Corsicans of his day , was overpowered , and has maintained itself only in the taciturn and gloomy , melancholy and choleric naturel of the people . The oldest ...
... nature , which struck even the philosopher Seneca as so remarkable in the Corsicans of his day , was overpowered , and has maintained itself only in the taciturn and gloomy , melancholy and choleric naturel of the people . The oldest ...
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... nature of the coast ; for , that the savageness of the inhabitants was not the cause , we gather from their placing themselves among the then particularly wild and uncivilized peoples of Gaul . Afterwards , Ligurians crossed over to the ...
... nature of the coast ; for , that the savageness of the inhabitants was not the cause , we gather from their placing themselves among the then particularly wild and uncivilized peoples of Gaul . Afterwards , Ligurians crossed over to the ...
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... , moreover , given us a few notices besides * See Merivale's Fall of the Roman Republic , pp . 511-517 . † Pliny , N. H. iii . 12 , 80 . Strabo , v . 2 . on the character and nature of the country and people CHAP . III . ] 7 HISTORY .
... , moreover , given us a few notices besides * See Merivale's Fall of the Roman Republic , pp . 511-517 . † Pliny , N. H. iii . 12 , 80 . Strabo , v . 2 . on the character and nature of the country and people CHAP . III . ] 7 HISTORY .
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... nature of the country and people of Corsica in that period . I shall simply put them here side by side , as it must be interesting to compare what they say with what is told us of the Corsicans in the latter part of the middle ages ...
... nature of the country and people of Corsica in that period . I shall simply put them here side by side , as it must be interesting to compare what they say with what is told us of the Corsicans in the latter part of the middle ages ...
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... nature of its climate - less tem- perate ? And yet here abide more strangers than natives . " From all accounts of the oldest authors , we must infer that Corsica was then but little cultivated , and was poor in natural products , with ...
... nature of its climate - less tem- perate ? And yet here abide more strangers than natives . " From all accounts of the oldest authors , we must infer that Corsica was then but little cultivated , and was poor in natural products , with ...
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