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Progress From the First to the Fourteenth Century - James Aitken Wylie

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triumph. Compared with this how different has<br />

been <strong>the</strong> career of Rome! — as different, in fact, as<br />

<strong>the</strong> thunder-cloud which comes onward, mantling<br />

<strong>the</strong> skies in gloom and scathing <strong>the</strong> earth with fiery<br />

bolts, is different from <strong>the</strong> morning descending<br />

from <strong>the</strong> mountain-<strong>to</strong>ps, scattering around it <strong>the</strong><br />

silvery light, and awakening at its presence songs<br />

of joy.<br />

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