| Joseph Forsyth - 1820 - 708 pages
...battle renewed every spring, and lost every fall. In the tracts mentioned in the motto , the maParia has been established for many ages ; but now it is...which the ancients wisely held sacred, Government lias lately removed one defence * against the * The mephitic air , being heavy and therefor* low, may... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 480 pages
...the mal'aria has been established for many ages ; but for some years back it has been advancing to the suburbs, and the city of Rome, while the checks...opposed to its progress are either defective or absurd. The present Romans seem to have lost that agricultural taste which so well promoted the warlike institutions... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1838 - 480 pages
...vicioity the maVaria has been established for many ages; but for some years back it has been advancing to the suburbs, and the city of Rome, while the checks...opposed to its progress are either defective or absurd. The present Romans seem to have lost that agricultural taste which so well promoted the warlike institutions... | |
| Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 pages
...every fall." The malaria has been established in the Campagna for many ages, and is now advancing to the suburbs and the city of Rome, while the checks...government has lately removed one defence* against the sea-vapour-i, which, now mixing freely with those of the land, render them doubly noxious. The government... | |
| Joseph Forsyth - 2001 - 414 pages
...hospitals. It is a battle renewed every spring, and lost every fall. In the tracts mentioned in the motto, the malaria has been established for many ages; but...sacred, Government has lately removed one defence 26 ' against the seavapours which now, mixing freely with those of the land, render them doubly noxious.... | |
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