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Excerpt from The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature, for the Year 1772
Someo the molt defart provinces in Afia, have been repeatedly the feats of arts, arms, commerce, and literature. Thefe potent and civi lized nations have repeatedly pe rifhed, for want of any union, or fyfiem of policy of this nature. Some Scythian, or other barbarian, has been fuffered, unnoticed, to fubdue his neighbouring tribes each new eonquefl was made an infirument to the f ucceeding, until at length become irrefiftable, he fwept whole e'mpires with their arts and fciences Off the face of the earth. In the fame manner a bonf ditti, who were afterwards called Romans, were fufiered to accumu late power, until they had fubdned the bravefi and fiercefi nations, and became the matters and defiroyers of the belt part of the world. Each fiate looked on with indifference, or enjoyed a malignant pleafure at the ruin Of its neighbour, without refleetin that the weapons and power of which he was deprived, would be quickly employed to its own defiruetion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
