| | The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire Chapter 55 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | and the remains of the Fennic tribes are widely, though thinly scattered from the sources of the Oby to the shores of Lapland. |
 | | The consanguinity of the Hungarians and Laplanders would display the powerful energy of climate on the children of a common parent; the lively contrast between the bold adventurers who are intoxicated with the wines of the Danube, and the wretched fugitives who are immersed beneath the snows of the polar circle. |
 | | Adversity suggested the counsels of moderation and peace: the robbers of the West acquiesced in a sedentary life; and the next generation was taught, by a discerning prince, that far more might be gained by multiplying and exchanging the produce of a fruitful soil. |
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