On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations (Classic Reprint)

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FB&C Limited, Oct 25, 2017 - History - 336 pages
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When the Emperor Adrian, after traver sing the whole of his vast empire, climbed the summit of Mount Etna, he confessed, with all the humility of philosophy, that this sublime pinnacle presented, at the rising of the sun, glories which gave him but a poor and contemptible opinion of his own impe rial condition.

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