Common sense is outraged by the weight of taxation.

The different fractions of the middle class--advocates, physicians, merchants, farmers, artists--freely express among one another their discontent and their hatred, their ideas and their hopes.

The Apennines, which form a barrier between them and the Pope, bring them nearer to Europe and liberty.

I have never failed, after conversing with one of the middle class in the Legations, to inscribe in my tablets, _There is an Italian Nation_! I travelled from Bologna to Florence with a young man whom I at first took, from the simple elegance of his dress, for an Englishman.

But we fell so naturally into conversation, and my companion expressed himself so fluently in French, that I supposed him to be a fellow-countryman.