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Excerpt from The British Citizen, His Rights and Privileges: A Short History But the early promise of these nations passed away. The genius and the free institutions of Italy had a very short duration. The manu factures of Flanders and southern France were well-nigh extirpated. The parliaments of Spain and France were silenced, and the liberties of the people were violently reft from them. The trading Cities and markets of the Middle Ages, the wealth of which was the object of admiration or envy to their rude neighbours, have become desolate and deserted, and the flourishing Mohammedan kingdoms of the far east and the far west have long been subject to other lords. But even when these changes took place, England was still backward among the nations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.