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Excerpt from On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Notes, Commentaries, and Illustrations 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. 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.