Excerpt from The Victories of Rome: And the Temporal PowerThe thoughts of men, their whole attention and interest, have of late been fixed, with painful in tensity, upon one great absorbing subject - the destinies of Rome. Not an intelligent mind but has made Rome its subject-matter of research and study, not a loyal heart but has made Rome its object of perpetual prayer. The thought of Rome.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.