Excerpt from Histoire de la République de Venise, Vol. 2
S'1l estan spectacle digne d'admiration et d'in térêt, c'est celui d'un état sans population, sans territoire, disputant son existence contre une multitude d'ennemis; se créant, par l'in dustrie, des moyens de résistance là où la na ture semblait les avoir refusés, déployant un caractère qui ferait honneur aux peuples les plus célèbres' de l'antiquité, un appareil de forces digne des plus grandes puissances; ap pelant à son secours les ambitions, les haines étrangères, et lorsqu'il semble épuisé par tant d'efforts, trouvant une nouvelle énergie dans la plus noble de toutes les passions le patrio t15me.
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