Excerpt from The Mediterranean: A Memoir Physical, Historical, and Nautical The undertaking, though heavy, is nevertheless not wanting either in interest or importance: the Mediterranean Sea, so secondary in extent compared with others, being, per 86, of vast surface, with many of its characteristics on the grandest scale. Besides, viewing it as the actual site where the intellectual culture to which we are most directly indebted was first developed, it cannot but be regarded for its portentous historical occurrences; nor ...
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Excerpt from The Mediterranean: A Memoir Physical, Historical, and Nautical The undertaking, though heavy, is nevertheless not wanting either in interest or importance: the Mediterranean Sea, so secondary in extent compared with others, being, per 86, of vast surface, with many of its characteristics on the grandest scale. Besides, viewing it as the actual site where the intellectual culture to which we are most directly indebted was first developed, it cannot but be regarded for its portentous historical occurrences; nor will a sailor fbrget that it is the sea whereon the eets of Carthage, Greece, and-rome contended in former days, and those of Spain, France, Italy, and England in later times. The grand object of travelling, ' Said Dr. Johnson to General Paoli, 'is to see the, shores of the Mediter ranean. On those shores Were the four great empires of the world the Assyrian, the pers1an, the Greek, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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