Significados de little states en inglés

The old historic democracies were but little states with primitive economic conditions.

These little states are as full of intrigues as a foul fruit of maggots.

Each of the seven little states, on the other hand, regulated its own internal affairs.

With this secret agreement between them, the four little states went to war with Turkey.

Would they agree amongst themselves, these innumerable little states?

The two Republics were divided, so to speak, into a great many little states by the blockhouse lines.

Those little states are always screeching.

His projects were encouraged by the discord rife among the little states or cantons which composed the Swiss league.

Great nations replaced little states.

These four little states now contained thirty-nine towns, with an aggregate population of 24,000.

These little states grew so rapidly that the despots of Asia became alarmed, and organized gigantic expeditions to destroy them.

In Greece, where many little states constantly at war bordered one another, a slave could often run away to liberty.

In little states it cannot be thus; every man feels in his own property and person the effect of a war.

Some of the mediæval communes were not without traces of democracy; but modern nations do not derive from those turbulent little states.

Two little states, his neighbors on the east, Lorraine and Switzerland, became the object and the theatre of his passion for war.

We shall give to each of these little states its ancient name and shall enumerate whatever is worthy of note in each of them.