Download or read book Rome in America (Classic Reprint) written by Justin Dewey Fulton and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rome in America In Motley's History of the United Netherlands there is a picture which Americans should study. William the Silent, Prince of Orange, had been murdered on the 10th of July, 1584. The disaster was apparently universal. "Habit, necessity, and the natural gifts of the man had combined to invest him at last with an authority which seemed more than human. There was such general confidence in his sagacity, courage, and purity, that the nation had come to think with his brain and to act with his hand!" He was dead. The cause remained. Under the rule of his enemy, Philip II., a small, dull, elderly, imperfectly educated, patient, plodding invalid, with white hair and protruding under-jaw and dreary visage, were America, the East Indies, the whole Spanish Peninsula, the better portion of Italy, the seventeen Netherlands, and many other possessions, far and near, and he contemplated annexing to this extensive property the kingdoms of France, of England and Ireland. 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.