...fact to those who had the longest purses, or the most ready use of the tongue on popular platforms. Distinctions of birth had been exchanged for distinctions...was being absorbed into vast estates, held by a few favoured families ;ind cultivated by slaves, while the old agricultural population was driven off the...

...platforms. Distinctions of birth had been exchanged for distinctions of wealth. The struggles between CHAP. plebeians and patricians for equality of privilege...was being absorbed into vast estates, held by a few favoured families and cultivated by slaves, while the old agricultural population was driven off the...

...had the longest purses, or the most ready use of tongue on populär platforms. Distinctions of birtli had been exchanged for distinctions of wealth. The...The free cultivators were disappearing from the soiL . . The rieh were extravagant, for life had ceased to have particular interest, except for its material...

...fact, to those who had the longest punw, or the most ready use of the tongue on popular platforms. Distinctions of birth had been exchanged for distinctions...equality of privilege were over, and a new division bad been formed between tho party of property and ft party who desired a change in the structure of...

...fact, to those who had the longest purses, or the most ready use of the tongue on popular platforms. Distinctions of birth had been exchanged for distinctions...was being absorbed into vast estates, held by a few favoured families and cultivated by slaves, while the old agricultural population was driven off the...

...distinctions of wealth. The struggle between plebians and patricians for equality of privilege was over, a new division had been formed between the party of...free cultivators were disappearing from the soil. Patriotism survived on the lips, but patriotism meant the ascendancy of the party which would maintain...

...of birth had been exchanged for distinctions of wealth. The struggles between plebeian and patrician for equality of privilege were over, and a new division...who desired a change in the structure of society. — Tkurber, in Homiletic Monthly, April, 1884, p. 412. The sudden and vast increase of private fortunes...

...to those who hitd tlie longest purges or the most ready use of the tongue on the popular platform. Distinctions of birth had been exchanged for distinctions of wealth. The struggles between plebeian and patrician for equality of privilege wcro over, and a new division had been formed between...

...distinction of wealth. The struggle between plebeians and patricians for equality of privilege was over, and a new division had been formed between the...cultivators were disappearing from the soil. Italy was being fast absorbed into vast estates held by a few favored families and cultivated by slaves, while the...

...distinctions of wealth. The struggle between plebeians and patricians for equality of privilege was over, and a new division had been formed between the...who desired a change in the structure of society." — Froude* Such was the condition of things, B. c. 146, when the ruin of Carthage left Rome with no...