Barber, John Warner, 1798-1885. [from old catalog] · New Haven, Conn., Pub. for the author by J. H. Bradley · leaf 369
of the me-chanical arts. He invited industrious foreigners tore-people his country, which had been desolated bythe Danes. He introduced and encouraged manu-factures : he prompted men of activity to engage innavigation and commerce, he appropriated a sev-enth part of his own revenue to rebuild… … TENTH CENTURY. Such was the ignorance, superstition and profligacy of allclasses at this period, that the tenth, and some of the succeedingcenturies, have been termed the Dark Ages. Pure Christi-anity was covered up with numerous forms, and useless cere-monies—the relics of saints were held in the…
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