DOI Kapitel:
Chap. VI: Observations on Ancient Names - On Roman Architecture - Defects of the Modern Style - Progress of the Art - Papal Government - Its Character - Consequences of the French Invasion and Preponderance of the present and future State of Rome
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mense expense may have carried soil to some
spots to make gardens; but even that adventi-
tious fertility could not be of long duration, it
would soon disappear through the hungry uncon-
nected sand beneath.”*
Whether any, or if any, what degree of blame
may attach to the papal government, it is diffi-
cult to determine, because it is not very easy to
discover what right the sovereign has to interfere
in the management of individual property, and
the cultivation of private estates. That the Ro-
man government and nobility have hitherto, like
most continental governments and nobles, paid
little attention to agriculture is I believe gene-
rally admitted, and that the system of corn laws
established in the papal territory was impolitic
and pernicious, is equally acknowledged on all
sides; but the last of these defects has been re-
moved by the recent suppression of all the ancient
regulations on this head, and by the introduction
of a new code, founded upon more enlightened
principles : while the former can only be reme-
died by time, and by a very general revolution in
continental manners and feelings. The papal
government is nof indeed in its nature very active,
* Theory of the Earth, by Philip Howard, Esq.
mense expense may have carried soil to some
spots to make gardens; but even that adventi-
tious fertility could not be of long duration, it
would soon disappear through the hungry uncon-
nected sand beneath.”*
Whether any, or if any, what degree of blame
may attach to the papal government, it is diffi-
cult to determine, because it is not very easy to
discover what right the sovereign has to interfere
in the management of individual property, and
the cultivation of private estates. That the Ro-
man government and nobility have hitherto, like
most continental governments and nobles, paid
little attention to agriculture is I believe gene-
rally admitted, and that the system of corn laws
established in the papal territory was impolitic
and pernicious, is equally acknowledged on all
sides; but the last of these defects has been re-
moved by the recent suppression of all the ancient
regulations on this head, and by the introduction
of a new code, founded upon more enlightened
principles : while the former can only be reme-
died by time, and by a very general revolution in
continental manners and feelings. The papal
government is nof indeed in its nature very active,
* Theory of the Earth, by Philip Howard, Esq.