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...interrupted the commerce between the towns and the country. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated ; and the western provinces of Europe,...considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism. During the continuance of those confusions, the...

...Western provinces of the Roman empire, the confusions which followed so great a revolution lasted Tor several centuries. The rapine and violence which the...considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism. During the continuance of those confusions, the...

...interrupted the commerce between the towns and the country. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated, and the western provinces of Europe,...considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism. During the continuance of those coufusions, the...

...provinces of Europe, which lind enjoyed a considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism. During...confusions, the chiefs and principal leaders of those raflions acquired, or usurped to themselves, the greater part of the lands of those countries. A great...

...interrupted the commerce between the towns and the country. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated; and the western provinces of Europe,...into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism."* These calamities lasted five centuries, during which, the finest regions of Europe were uncultivated,...

...country. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated; GRATITUDE DUE THE MONKS. 57 and the western provinces of Europe, which had enjoyed...into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism."* These calamities lasted five centuries, during which, the finest regions of Europe were uncultivated,...

...provinces of Europe, which had enjoyed a considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism. During...those countries. A great part of them was uncultivated j but no part of them, whether cultivated or uncultivated, was left without a proprietor. All of them...

...interrupted the commerce between the towns and the country. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated, and the western provinces of Europe,...considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism. During the continuance of those confusions, the...

...interrupted the commerce between the towns and the country. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated, and the western provinces of Europe,...considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism. During the continuance of those confusions, the...