Excerpt from Reminiscences of an Intercourse With Mr. Niebuhr, the Historian, During a Residence With Him in Rome, in the Years 1822 and 1823I might have grouped the di¿'erent aphorisms un der some general heads, but even this arrangement seemed to me to indicate a promise of giving some thing complete, or, at any rate, it appeared to me to deprive the various sentiments Ofthat desultory cha racter which they ought to retain in order to remain perfectly natural as they were gathered, so I give them.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.