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The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison Esq Remarks on Several Parts of Italy Author:Joseph Addison General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1765 Original Publisher: Printed for J. and R. Tonson Subjects: English literature Literary Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Medieval Notes:... more » This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ROME. IT is generally obferved, that modern Rome flands higher than the ancient; fome have computed it about fourteen or fifteen feet, taking one place with another. The reafon given for it is, that the prefent city ftands upon the ruins of the former; and indeed I have often obferved, that where any confiderable pile of building flood anciently, one ftill finds a rifing ground, or a little kind of hill, which was doubtlefs made up out of the fragments and rubbifh of the ruined . edifice. But befides this particular caufe, we may aflign another that has very much contributed to the raifing the fituation of feveral parts of Rome: It being certain the great quantities of earth, that have been wafhed off from the hills by the violence of mowers have had no fmall lhare in it. This any one may be fenfible of, who obferves how far feveral buildings, that fland near the roots of mountains, are funk deeper in the earth than thofe that have been on the tops of hills,. or in open plains; for which reafon the prefent face of Rome is much more even and level than it was formerly; the fame caufe, that has raifedraifed the low grounds, having contributed to fink thofe that were higher. There are in Rome two fets of antiquities, the chriftian and the heathen. The former, though of a frefher date are fo embroiled with fable and legend, that one receives but li...« less