Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . certain occasion, he had cooped up in awalled town a band of the huge barbarians of Gaulthey came out on the ramparts and made gameof the Roman veterans. AVhat, said they, areyon setting n\< that tower out there for? Howcan surli .liiiiiiintivcs as you b
Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning . certain occasion, he had cooped up in awalled town a band of the huge barbarians of Gaulthey came out on the ramparts and made gameof the Roman veterans. AVhat, said they, areyon setting n\< that tower out there for? Howcan surli .liiiiiiintivcs as you bring down that en-gine aLaiii^t till unlls? For, says Cifisar withevident ni(.irtiliiati(.n, in comparison with themagnitude of the bodies of the Gauls, our ownbrevity is a thing of contempt. ROME.—AIim AND LEAEXING. 59 pania, and by its branches connecting all thestates of Southern Italy, behold its breadth,behold its paving-stones! What a thorough-fare ! Built, too, by a blind censor, three hun-dred years before the Christian era! Take theCloaca Maxima, conceived by Tarquin the of this great sewer of primitive Rome. Afterfive centuries Agrippa will sail through it ina boat and find not a stone displaced! Itwas in such works as these that the geniusof the Roman architects and masons foundits native element. The national sentiment. WAV.—TOMB UF CJECLIA Elder no more than a century and a half afterthe founding of the city. Behold its subter-ranean arch, thirty feet in height, all hewnBtoue—not a particle of ceraeut! NeitherEgoist nor Babylon can jjroduce the parallel scorned the temporary and perishable. Thevast and solid structures which gave to thecity the epithet Etfrnal were but the reflexof the mighty innate energies of the race ofKomulus. CHARTER LIV.— AND LEARNING. |1TH the exception of a fewmodifications in the stylesof architecture, the Ro-mans did not create a sin-gle new art. They werepeculiarly unoriginal. Itis in this respect that thestrongest
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