 the hearts of all the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping, by these means, to save themselves. Others shut themselves up in their houses with their wives, their children, and...  Thucydides - Página 61por William Lucas Collins - 1878 - 188 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1844 - 624 páginas
...which they were perfectly guiltless ! " When the evil had become universal," (speaking of Florence,) " the hearts of all the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping by these means to save themselves. Others... | |
 | 1850 - 342 páginas
...sufficiently appalling picture of the moral effects of this great calamity in the following description: — ' When the evil had become universal, the hearts of...the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping by these means to save themselves ; others... | |
 | Norman Chevers - 1852 - 396 páginas
...light the moral corruption of the Florentines nearly five centuries previously. Boccaccio tells us* that — " When the evil had become universal, the...the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping by these means to save themselves ; others... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 408 páginas
...to communicate death. ' When the evil had become universal,' says Boccaccio, speaking of Florence, ' the hearts of all the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping by these means to save themselves. Others... | |
 | 1854 - 402 páginas
...to communicate death. ' When the evil had become universal,' says Boccaccio, speaking of Florence, ' the hearts of all the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping by these means to save themselves. Others... | |
 | Mary Anne Everett Green - 1857 - 530 páginas
...scourge. The following passages contain a vivid picture of the desolation wrought by it in Florence. " When the .evil had become universal, the hearts of all the inhabitants were closed to feelings of Immunity. They fled from the Kick and All that belonged to them, hoping by these means to save .themselves.... | |
 | 1860 - 634 páginas
...perhaps, if in this connection we give a single extract from Boccaccio. He is writing of Florence. " When the evil had become universal, the hearts of...the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping by these means to save themselves. Some... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1860 - 614 páginas
...to communicate death. ' When the evil had become universal,1 says Boccaccio, speaking of Florence, 'the hearts of all the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping by these means to save themselves. Others... | |
 | 1863 - 534 páginas
...peculiar in the manners of each country. " When the evil had become universal," speaking of Florence, " the hearts of all the inhabitants were closed to feelings of humanity. They fled from the sick and all that belonged to them, hoping, by these means, to save themselves.... | |
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