The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.

Summary

I propose to describe the Greatness and the Misery of the old Roman world; nor is there any thing in history more suggestive and instructive.A little city, founded by robbers on the banks of the Tiber, rises gradually into importance, although the great cities of the East are scarcely conscious of its existence. Its early struggles simply arrest the attention, and excite the jealousy, of the neighboring nations.