The depopulation of Lombardy, and the increase of forests, afforded an ample range for the pleasures of the chase.
But the power of kings is most effectual to destroy; and the twenty years of the Gothic war had consummated the distress and depopulation of Italy.
Africa lost five millions, that Italy was thrice as extensive, and that the depopulation was in a larger proportion.
In the quarrels which take place among them, the ladies are generally the causa belli--a cause which would soon lead to the depopulation of the country, were all husbands to avenge their wrongs by shedding the blood of the guilty.
It is interesting to speculate on the cause of this phenomenon, for the depopulation can have been due only to intertribal warfare or disease.
Here again is an indication of depopulation at a very early date.
Would McClellan have been justified by the facts, in ordering the utter depopulation of the Federal city, and the sending into exile of every man, woman and child dwelling there and not enlisted in the military service?
Did not General Sherman by this order of depopulation needlessly add to the suffering of non-combatants?
The depopulation of Atlanta by the fiat of a military commander stands out in relief as the only occurrence of the kind that marked or marred the conduct of the war on either side.
There cannot be the least doubt that thisdepopulation is directly due to the State.
Germany calculated that the depopulation caused by his wars was more than compensated by the immigration.
The dilapidation of parsonage-houses and the depopulation of villages appears not to have been so great just round about Worcester, as in some other parts; but they have made great progress even here.
This, like so many others of our Highland glens, has suffered much through depopulation during this century.
It did not seem as if the depopulation of Rum had tended much to anyone’s advantage.
These were afterwards published in 1849, under the title of “The Depopulation System of the Highlands,” in pamphlet form, by Johnston and Hunter.
In this inch-by-inch clearance, the work of depopulation is effected in a few years, or in a generation at most, quite as effectually as by the more glaring and reprehensible method.
Yet, forsooth, it is maintained there has been no depopulation here!
That table will show exactly in which parishes and at what rate depopulation progressed during the last fifty years.
Father Valverde, in a formal manner, gave the sanction of the church to the treacherous murder of Atabalipa and his relations; which was immediately followed by the destruction and almost entire depopulation of a flourishing empire.
Had it been possible to conceive the thorough depopulation which had ensued, we should have avoided coming up the river.
Mr. Horace Waller was living for some five months on Mount Morambala, a position from which the whole process of the slave-trade, and depopulation of the country around could be well noted.
Gibbon has told us what it was which occasioned this constant depopulation of the country, and ruin of agriculture in the Italian provinces.
All the efforts of the Christian emperors," says Michelet, "to arrest the depopulation of the country, were as nugatory as those of their heathen predecessors had been.
We are firmly persuaded that if we cannot succeed in applying a remedy the abandonment and depopulation of the Campagna will go on increasing, till the country becomes a fearful desert.
In the modern depopulation of Asia, the regular operation of government and agriculture is confined to the neighborhood of cities; and the distant country is abandoned to the pastoral tribes of Arabs, Curds, and Turkmans.
King Smith was studying the native depopulation statistics in the different groups, and making notes on them.
At the best, that would perhaps only have been possible if there had been raised a strong public sentiment, in France as well as in Great Britain, on the depopulation question, and if the two powers had been willing to co-operate.
This action caused the depopulation of a great number of towns as all the people fled to the mountains where they hoped to be safe.
There is, as I said at the outset, a well-nigh universal current of opinion that a remedy for the depopulation of our country districts and for the overcrowding of our large cities is urgently needed.
Misery and depopulation have been the fatal consequences of this mal-administration.
Finlay that Greece reached the lowest degree of misery and depopulation under the Flavian emperors ("about the time of Vespasian" is the first expression in the revised ed.
The general depopulation of subject Greece is thus perfectly intelligible.
Richard II, must be dismissed as a delusion set up by the phenomena of agrarian depopulation in certain districts.
Only the depopulation of the Black Death prevented extreme misery among the English population; and the conquering king ends his life, as William had done before him, in isolation and ignominy.
In the civil wars before and after Caesar's fall, Greece was harried by both sides in turn; and down to the time of Augustus depopulation and impoverishment seem to have steadily proceeded under Roman rule.
It would seem as if those who rose to the status of tenants[1040] after the depopulation sought in their turn to keep down those who remained landless servitors.
Seeley, the pestilence of the year 166 as a beginning of depopulation, is to ignore the problem of three hundred years of previous depopulation in Italy, and to set up a misconception as to the rest of the Empire.
Cheapness and dearness, plenty and scarcity, of corn and other food, depopulation and rapidly increasing numbers, really co-existed in the kingdom.
Thirlwall, in his closing survey, proceeding on Polybius,[249] confidently decides that the main cause of depopulation was domestic and moral.
Further depopulation took place under the Romans, partly from direct violence and deportation, partly from fiscal pressure, partly from the economic causes already noted.
Depopulation and arrest of production in the East under Turkish rule are to be explained in substantially the way in which we have explained them for ancient Rome.
In regretting the depopulation of the country I inveigh against the increase of our luxuries; and here also I expect the shout of modern politicians against me.
The story of the misery of rural depopulation in the first half of the sixteenth century repeats itself at the close of the eighteenth.
The enclosures did not end with the sixteenth century, and for another one hundred years complaints are heard of the steady depopulation of rural England.
What is more strange than the doubt of the progress of rural depopulation in England is, that Mr. Prior, the biographer of Goldsmith, doubts even the justice of his strictures as applied to Ireland.
From Goldsmith's time to our own, the process of rural depopulation has been going on, by the absorption of smaller properties into larger ones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depopulation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
