The Dacian subjects, removed from those distant possessions which they were unable to cultivate or defend, added strength and populousness to the southern side of the Danube.
It has been observed that "the opulence of the inhabitants may possibly be gathered from the frequent recurrence of the trade of goldsmith in it, and the populousness of the town from the enumeration of the streets.
The whole number will then be nine hundred, or nine to a square mile; a degree of populousness greater than those tracts of desolation can often show.
Another essay of a different character is conspicuous for the vast extent of the learning and research which must have been expended in bringing together its crowd of apt illustrations,--that on "The Populousness of Ancient Nations.
Wallace was the first to point distinctly to the rule, that to find the limits of the populousness of any given community, we must look at the quantity of food at its disposal.
I have amused myself lately with an essay or dissertation on the populousness of antiquity, which led me into many disquisitions concerning both the public and domestic life of the ancients.
Dissertation on the Populousnessof Antiquity, 326.
See this passage nearly verbatim in the "Essay on the Populousness of Ancient Nations," (Works, edit.
The most diligent researches have collected only the following circumstances; which, slight and imperfect as they are, may tend, in some degree, to illustrate the question of the populousness of ancient Rome.
But here at Roma la Santa, the street is all our Corso; a fine one doubtless, and called the Strada del Popolo, with infinite propriety, for except in that strada there is little populousness enough God knows.
The first and most natural root of a great city is the labor and populousness of the adjacent country, which supplies the materials of subsistence, of manufactures, and of foreign trade.
Their rude minds, insensible perhaps of the finer arts, were astonished by the magnificent scenery: and the poverty of their native towns enhanced the populousness and riches of the first metropolis of Christendom.
Hume, Of the Populousnessof the Ancient Nations: Discourses No.
Per contra, Wallace, On the Numbers of Mankind in Ancient and Modern Times, in which the superior populousness of antiquity is maintained, 1753.
Yet I cannot credit this extreme populousness a few years after the testimony of the emperor Leo, (Tactica, c.
The vicinity of Italy had tempted their early inroads; but from their camp on the Brenta, they beheld with some terror the apparent strength and populousness of the new discovered country.
The Arabs might exaggerate the truth, but they created and they describe the most prosperous aera of the riches, the cultivation, and the populousness of Spain.
According to Josephus, who lived a few years after the Crucifixion, the populousness of Galilee was far before most other regions of the world.
But the population of an English city is not to be compared with, or considered as similar to, the populousness of a Chinese city, as will be obvious by considering the two capitals of these two empires.
Various causes have contributed to the populousnessof China.
That none of the statements hitherto published are strictly true, I am free to admit, but that the highest degree of populousness that has yet been assigned may be possible, and even probable, I am equally ready to contend.
The white one-storied houses are dotted thickly among all this cultivation, giving evidence of great populousness in this primitive paradise--so far removed away from the world, and so little resorted to by commerce.
The populousness of his favored city was the next and most serious object of the attention of its founder.
They have the populousness of the North, with the fire of the South; the resources of Tartars, with, the fanaticism of Saracens.
When Procopius first landed, he admired the populousness of the cities and country, strenuously exercised in the labors of commerce and agriculture.
Its grandeur and populousnessin the ixth century are exaggerated beyond the bounds of credibility; but Rei has been since ruined by wars and the unwholesomeness of the air.
He draws the same conclusion with regard to the populousness of antioch.
But the populousness of every country must be in proportion to the degree of its improvement and cultivation.
The extent of the market, therefore, must for a long time be in proportion to the riches and populousness of that country, and consequently their improvement must always be posterior to the improvement of that country.
The Arabs might exaggerate the truth, but they created and they describe the most prosperous æra of the riches, the cultivation, and the populousness of Spain.
Footnote: Essay on the Populousness of Ancient Nations, ad init.
This superiority forms indeed the minor premiss in the general argument by which he confuted the commonly received opinion as to the populousness of ancient nations.
He is at pains to show the superiority of modern to ancient agriculture, and he avails himself of the researches of Hume to prove the comparatively greater populousness of modern European countries.
By this Representation they would signify their Gratitude to the Gods, for the Populousness of their Country.
But this may sufficiently convince them that compute the ancient Populousness of the Countries by the present depopulations of the Cities at this day.
This number at the first view seems to be very incredible; but to such as seriously consider the largeness and populousness of Asia, it cannot be judg’d impossible.
The state of agriculture and the populousness of a country have been considered as nearly connected with each other.
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