Population was practically stationary for centuries owing to pestilences and the large proportion of deaths among infants. [Please select]
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Of that he had no doubt whatever; wherever he looked he saw 'calamities, wars, tumults, pestilences, earthquakes, etc.' [Please select]
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The long-current opinion that the Jews were immune from cholera and the other pestilences of the middle ages is not to-day accepted. [Please select]
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There had been terrible plagues and pestilences: in some of these as many as five thousand people died daily in Rome alone. [Please select]
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The peasants labored from sunrise to sunset, ate coarse fare, lived in huts, and suffered from frequent pestilences. [Please select]
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Tempests and conflagrations, pestilences and earthquakes, reveal supramundane powers, and instigate religious terror rather than philosophy. [Please select]
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Through all these centuries intermittent pestilences were playing a part in weakening races and altering social conditions, a part that has still to be properly worked out by historians. [Please select]
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The Englishman Bede, one of the few writers of the time, records pestilences in England in 664, 672, 678, and 683, no fewer than four in twenty years. [Please select]
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