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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Croly, LL. D, Vol. 2 of 2: Author of Salathiel, Etc;; Embellished With Twenty Etchings by Dagley From Antique Gems
Public utility; but the Senate now followed in the train of the armies ambition was let loose to urge its. Way through the land, in all the courses of military pride, rashness, and love of power and all its courses were charged with blood. The fatal time of the Re public had come, and it was to be undone. Military revolution smote it, with the shock of an earthquake and it went down before the world with its old, glorious architecture, split and shattered to the foun dations: still, indeed, not totally ruined, not without some unshaken memorials and remnants of ancient holiness and grandeur but thenceforth desolate, and devoted to the common visitations of decay. 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.
