 | Jules Michelet - 1847 - 832 Seiten
...laborer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plough had been. ... It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town — Magistri, Rationales, clerks to the prefecture. Condemnations, proscriptions, and exactions... | |
 | Jules Michelet - 1851 - 480 Seiten
...laborer broke down, the plains became deserts, and wood* grew where the plough had been. ... It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town — Magistri, Rationales, clerks to the prefecture. Condemnations, proscriptions, and exactions... | |
 | John George Sheppard - 1861 - 830 Seiten
...labourer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plough had been. . . It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town, — Hwjistrl, Eationalcs, clerks to the prefecture. Condemnations, proscriptions, and exactions... | |
 | 1881 - 430 Seiten
...laborer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plough had been. ... It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town. . . . The crack of the lash and the cry of the tortured filled the air. The faithful nlav e was... | |
 | 1881 - 428 Seiten
...laborer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plough had been. ... It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town. . . . The crack of the lash and the cry of the tortured filled the air. The faithful slave was... | |
 | 1881 - 898 Seiten
...laborer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plow had been. ... It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town. . . . The crack of the lash and the cry of the tortured filled the air. The faithful slave was... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1882 - 492 Seiten
...the labourer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plough had been It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town The crack of the lash and the cry of the tortured filled the air. The faithful slave was tortured... | |
 | William Binnington Boyce - 1884 - 676 Seiten
...Lactantius (3°°-325 AD), we need not wonder at this indifference towards the imperial rule. " It were impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town ; but the public distress, the universal mourning was when the scourge of the census came, and... | |
 | Ulick Ralph Burke - 1895 - 416 Seiten
...means nor morality, who invoked the forces of the Empire to enable them to plunder their neighbours.2 So numerous, says Lactantius, were the receivers in...to any change of masters is scarcely to be wondered at.3 Yet this financial ruin is but one 1 See Littre, op. cit. p. 40. • See Sheppard, fall of Rome... | |
 | 1923 - 1196 Seiten
...taxation, that the laborer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plow had been. It was impossible to number the officials who were rained upon every province and town, who each raised the valuation — as a proof of service done; and so the imposts went on increasing."... | |
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So numerous were the receivers in comparison with the payers, and so enormous the weight of taxation, that the labourer broke down, the plains became deserts, and woods grew where the plough had been It were impossible to number the officials who were... 