 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...country (answered Claius) where you were cast ashore, and now are past through, is Lacoiiia, 1 IMS, low. not so poor by the barrenness of the soil (though...(by them named helots) hath in this sort as it were disfi-i gured the face of nature, and made it so unhospitable as now you have found it ; the towns... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...country (answered Claius) where you were cast ashore, and now are past through, is Laconia, 1 'Mf, lOW. not so poor by the barrenness of the soil (though...these two years within the bowels of that estate, betwetn the gentlemen and the peasants (by them named helots) hath in this sort as it were disfigured... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...The country," answered Claius, " where you were cast ashore, and now are passed through, is Laconia; not so poor by the barrenness of the soil (though...were, disfigured the face of nature, and made it so inhospitable as now you have found it : the towns, neither of the one side nor the other, willingly... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...The country," answered Claius, " where you were cast ashore, and now are passed through, is Laconia; not so poor by the barrenness of the soil (though...were, disfigured the face of nature, and made it so inhospitable as now you have found it : the towns, neither of the one side nor the other, willingly... | |
 | 1863 - 394 pages
...want ? The country (answered Caius) where you were cast ashore, and now are past through, is Laconia, not so poor by the barrenness of the soil, (though...war, which being these two years within the bowels of this estate, between the gentlemen and the peasants, (by them named Helots,) hath in this soil as it... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...' The country,' answered Claius, ' where you were cast ashore and now are past through, is Laconia: not so poor by the barrenness of the soil (though...were, disfigured the face of nature, and made it so unhospital 2 as now you have found it; the towns neither of the one side nor the other willingly opening... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1912 - 272 pages
...fertill, as by a civill warre, which, being these two yeares within the bowells of that estate, betweene the gentlemen and the peasants, by them named Helots,...were, disfigured the face of nature and made it so unhospitall as now you have found it ; the towns neither of the one side nor the other willingly opening... | |
 | Annette Brown Hopkins - English fiction - 1915 - 824 pages
...?" "The country," answered Claius, "where you were cast ashore and are now past through is Laconia, not so poor by the barrenness of the soil (though...between the gentlemen and the peasants (by them named the Helots), hath in this sort as it were disfigured the face of nature, and made it so unhospitable... | |
 | Annette Brown Hopkins - English fiction - 1915 - 854 pages
...'x •', ashore >•£ ast ar.«»- ca.tr. v.'vX'. a Li.•/,.-...«. ,v,r u-, x^'" ''/ *•'•'' barrenness of the soil (though in itself not passing...between the gentlemen and the peasants (by them named the Helots), hath in this sort as it were disfigured the face of nature, and made it so unhospitable... | |
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The country," answered Claius, " where you were cast ashore, and now are passed through, is Laconia; not so poor by the barrenness of the soil (though in itself not passing fertile) as by a civil war, which being these two years... 
