The population, alert and vigorous, had for many centuries practised armed robbery and depredation, and gained its livelihood at the point of the carbine.

New-born infants inhaled contempt of the law with the mountain air, and drew in the love of others' goods with their mothers' milk.

Almost as soon as they could walk, they assumed the _cioccie_, or mocassins of untanned leather, with which they learned to run fearlessly along the edge of the giddiest mountain precipices.
When they had acquired the art of pursuing and escaping, of taking without being taken, the knowledge of the value of the different coins, the arithmetic of the distribution of booty, and the principles of the rights of nations as they are practised among the Apaches or the Comanches, their education was deemed complete.

They required no teaching to learn how to apply the spoil, and to satisfy their passions in the hour of victory.
In the year of grace 1806, this sensual, brutal, impious, superstitious, ignorant, and cunning race endowed Italy with a little mountaineer, known as Giacomo Antonelli.
Hawks do not hatch doves.

This is an axiom in natural history which has no need of demonstration.