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Excerpt from The Scourge, or Literary, Theatrical and Miscellaneous Magazine, 1814, Vol. 8
The desire of gain is an incentive to activity, and I would ever prefer beholding the merchant launch his bark into the ocean to search for riches in distant or unknown lands than see her prow armed with thunder and the enthusiast of ambi tion and conquest presiding at the helm, steering a course which, on his return, will be tracked with blood, and his sails filled with the dy mg sighs of the victims sacrificed to his fatal passion. 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.
