The Ruins: Or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Ruins: Or a Survey of the Revolutions of Empires

Once more Wlu I revisit you ye venerable ruins to receive your instructive lessons, and embellish my mind with your hoary truths Once more will I resume my place among you to enjoy the seques tered privacy-of your engaging and peaceful solitude: where, far secluded from the afiictive spectacle of the warring passions, I will love my own species in the afiectionate feelings of recollection, and, while I am studying to advance the universal happiness of my fel low-creatures,1 will build my own on the pleasing belief that l. Have accelerated theirs..

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