Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics, 1810, Vol. 3 Amongst these, of course, Were the remains of ancient genius and those works which had immortalized the names of the men who had formerly executed them, perished through the lawless rapacity of savages, whose sole delight was in the sword and battle. 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.