Excerpt from Reminiscences of Old Edinburgh, Vol. 1 Glimpses of Olden times have a Charm for most Of us, and sometimes all the more SO if they are not so very Old as to lie wholly beyond our own per sonal sympathies or local associations. Olden times, indeed! What are they, or when were they? The landing of Julius Caesar is among the Oldest of definite events for the British historian, but for Rome it is a recent date, and there are many Older things than Rome. Belzoni's mummy was dead, and buried, and embalmed, ere ...
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Excerpt from Reminiscences of Old Edinburgh, Vol. 1 Glimpses of Olden times have a Charm for most Of us, and sometimes all the more SO if they are not so very Old as to lie wholly beyond our own per sonal sympathies or local associations. Olden times, indeed! What are they, or when were they? The landing of Julius Caesar is among the Oldest of definite events for the British historian, but for Rome it is a recent date, and there are many Older things than Rome. Belzoni's mummy was dead, and buried, and embalmed, ere Romulus or Remus had been suckled. AS for us of the New World, anything dating before the landing Of Columbus is inconceivably ancient; and yet for England that is the time of the Tudors, - scarcely even medieval. In truth, antiquity is SO relative a thing that it becomes doubtful in these modern days Of ours if anything is really Old. At Francis Allen's, on the Christmas Eve, the Poet Laureate went to Sleep and before morning there came to him King Arthur like a modern gentleman Of stateliest port. 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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