Our Countrymen: Or Brief Memoirs of Eminent Americans (Classic Reprint)FB&C Limited, 2016年11月18日 - 442 頁 Excerpt from Our Countrymen: Or Brief Memoirs of Eminent Americans Sallust says, I have often heard that Quintus Maximus, Pub °lius Scipio, and other renowned persons of the Roman Com monwealth, used to say that, whenever they beheld the images of their ancestors, they felt their minds vehemently excited to virtue. It could not be the wax, nor the marble, that possessed this power but the recollections of their great actions kindled a generous flame in their breasts, which could not be quelled till they, also, by Virtue, had acquired equal fame and glory. 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. |
