ISBN: 9781459070677

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1822 Excerpt: ... 155 CHAP. IV. ITALY AND GREECE. 1 He late events in Italy are like those in Spain, too recent and too notorious to require particular mention in so general a sketch as this. The friends of liberty were disappointed by the feeble resistance which the Neapolitans opposed to the invasion of Austria. No doubt the cause was betrayed by some of the principal pretended patriots; and this is the best apology that can be offered for the easy discomfiture of the rest. Even this, however, is but a poor excuse; and the shameful defection of so many of the chiefs, proves that the higher classes of society in Italy are as corrupt and unprincipled, as the mass of the people are uninformed and wretched. In such a soil it may well be doubted whether rational liberty and the institutions fitted to secure it, will ever be a spontaneous growth. Que peut-on au milieu de ce peuple abattu? Benjamin est sans force, et Juda sans vertu. Nevertheless, as the spirit of political improvement gains ground in Europe, it will probably exercise a beneficial influence upon the character of the Italians, as well as upon the policy and disposition of the cabinets which have recently sueceeded in foiling their attempts; and the ability to organise a better system at home will grow up, in the gradual progress of events, under the operation of causes which may be expected at the same time to remove the hostility of foreign powers to its establishment. The unjust interference of these powers has, however, after all, in this as on former occasions been the real cause which has checked the efforts of the Italians, and entailed upon them a continuance of all the evils under which they labour. It is true that a long course of misgovernment and oppression has depraved, in a great measure, the whole fr... Alexander Hill Everett, Books, Social and Cultural Studies, Europe; Or, A General Survey Of The Present Situation Of The Principal Powers With Conjectures On Their Future Prospects Books>Social and Cultural Studies This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in 1822 in 432 pages; Subjects: History / Europe / General;<

ISBN: 1459070674

Taschenbuch, [EAN: 9781459070677], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Book, [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 69093011, Realpo… Meer...

Taschenbuch, [EAN: 9781459070677], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Book, [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 69093011, Realpolitik, 69077011, Politik, 69028011, Sachbücher, 54071011, Genres, 52044011, Fremdsprachige Bücher<