The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 48
riors who oncewere invincible; of orators, of poets, and statesmen whowere second to none of their respective classes. As itwere, it is the same people, with but few modifications,who rise, reach a grand development, fall, live near theearth for centuries, and then rise and fall again. In thiscase,… … CHAPTEE III. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO THE PAST. BEFOEE taking final leave of the country from whichwe have just been driven by Attila, Alaric, and thecliief of the Yandals, it may be no more than just togive these extinct civilizations some acknowledgmentsof the service they have conferred on the era of…
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