Download or read book Retrospection, Or a Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, Which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Hester Lynch Piozzi and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-23 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Retrospection, or a Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and Their Consequences, Which the Last Eighteen Hundred Years Have Presented to the View of Mankind, Vol. 2 of 2 Among the nations which have been reviewed, not quite enough has yet, perhaps, been told of that furprizing, that Ifeleéled people, who, on the firfi grand mutter of mankind, flood foremoft in the ranks of Humanity. Although their hifiory is earliefl, and bell: an. Thenticated, their limited geography was tirfl afcertained, though law had not a name in other countries when their code, yet extant, was compiled and although commerce amongft them mentioned trafficko ing and paying, in times when they had not exifted, we Ihould have heard but little, I believe, concerning lhckcls of filver, current money with the merchant. 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.