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ITALY - 1811 - of the Librarian of Congress, at Wanhingtob Tm annals of the world contain no other much narrative as that of Italy. Legendary Rome, the frenzied strife with Carthage, the wild career of Hannibal, the lifelong struggles of Pompey and Csesar, the culmination of the empire into universal sovereignty, the rise of Christianity, the crumbling temples of Paganism, the sweep of Moslem armies, the surging billows of barbaric invasion, t, he fall of imperial Rome, the gloom and chaos of the dark ages, the struggle of the great monarchies of Europe to grasp the fragments of the empire, the amazing campaigns of Napoleon I., the triumph of the allies, the new dismemberment of Italy, the campaign6 of Magenta and Solferino, and the recent re-establishment of Rome as the capital of re-united Italy, - a11 these conspire in furnishing historical records, which, in interest and instruction, are without a parallel. The materials from which to gather information upon these pinb are inexhaustible. Those upon which the author has mainly relied are the works of Niebuh., Arnold, Schmidt, Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch, Guicciardini, Sforzozi, Botta, Luigi Bosri, Sismondi, Percival, Spaulding, Gibbon, Robertson, Thiers, Alison, Julie de Marguerites, together with reviews and encyclopdias upon important characters and events. The author has spared no paina to attain all possible accuracy, having devoted to the most important events here d e d the d e s of many years. Where there has been di-y of a u t k i h, ne has adopted that statement, whioh, afber tne md a d oneidam tion, has appama to kim h s t authenticsatd. The one great truth taught in a11 these annals is, that there is no hope for the world butin the religion of the Bible. A change in the fbrm of government is of but little avail, so long as the people remain ignorant and corrupt. Probably, in a11 governments, the rulers pretty fairly represent the average intelligence and integrity of the people. A true republic cannot exist where the people are degraded. It is of but little avail to batter down an old despotism, unless there is sufficient enlightenment to rear upon its ruins a better edifice. The question, whether united Italy shall be prosperous and happy, is one to be decided in the kwts of the Italicrn people. Italy has deposed its old tyrannic rulers, and has introduced principles of civil and religious liberty hitherto unknown in that fair but ill-fated land but if there be not found among the masses of the people that intelligence and moral worth which are essential to free inetitutions, then the light we now behold gleaming over the Alps and the Apennines will prove but the flash of the midnight storm, not the dawn of open ing day. The men who are now doing the most for the welfare of the world are those who are striving, by all the varied instrumentalities of life, to make men better to awaken in the human heart the consciousness that God is our common Father, and that a11 we are brethren. He only is the true philanthropist who offers the unceasing prayer, with corresponding exertions, Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, as In heaven, so in earth J0H. N S. C. ABBOTT, Parn 5wm, Wur, YebrPug, m C H A P T E R I. L E B E N D A P Y R O M E . FBox 700 B. a TO 493 a a rma h m I TALIANP SULA.-UNCEBTAINH ISTOBY.-LXOEND O F TBOI.-TIIL Fuem ov EM.-LANDING IN ITALY.-WABS WITH NATIVE TBLBE-ALBA LONQA.-THE TOBI O r OYULU A B N DPEMUB-THE FOUNDAT O I F O BNOM L- OF THE S A B I N E N U T ED I NCO NQUESTS.-TIUNSLATIO O N F ROMU LUB-THE HOBATU AND CUBUTIL NQU O U F ATL BAL oae-Aw ssro O V T m u m u s c B r n m o e Tu uua-HIS DEYO BATISOW AY...
| ISBN-13 | 9781408626696 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1408626691 |
| Weight | 1.87 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.51 x 1.46 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $35.95 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 676 pages |
| Publisher | Inman Pr |
| Published On | 2007-10-01 |
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