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The comic history of Rome (1850)

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856, Leech, John, 1817-1864 · London, Bradbury, Evans · leaf 79

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they were without a difference We are now about to pursue our journey by a more certain road, tccarry on our history, as it were, by the rail; and, though the line maybe a peculiar one of our own, the train of facts will be regular, coming,we trust into no violent collision with others pursuing the… … he resources of Rome had hithertolieen derived from the plundertaken in war, but the field of battleis always far less fertile than thefield of industry. In the formercase, the crop once gathered isrendered for ever unproductive,and to beat the same enemy twiceover, is like the useless operationof…

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