Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 45
resist, as it oncedid, the strain of the environment, with its continual menaceto life. In the State and city, where life is constantly renewed asone generation succeeds another, fate falls from a different quarter.It appears when the people, strong, it may even be, as theirfathers, have to face… … T were manifest absurdity to stay upon areview of Florentine commerce, in theconclusion that this city held nothing buta nation of traders and shopkeepers. TheFlorentines were the quintessence of Italy,said Pope Boniface IX ; the fifth elementor vital spirit in the Italian character. Sucha…
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