The habits, customs, and antiquities of the Romans / [W. Andrew].

  • Andrew, W. (Surgeon)
Date:
1848
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Credit: The habits, customs, and antiquities of the Romans / [W. Andrew]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE HABITS, CUSTOMS, AND ANTIQUIT1E S, OF THE Whether we survey the lives and characters of the Romans—their habits, customs, and anti- quities—as a source of amusement, a matter of reverence, or as a profitable example to our own lives, they are equally deserving our most scru- tinizing attention. As a source of amusement, we look upon them as upon a mirror of fine reflective power, which to our curiosity raises up the virtues of the past, and at a view exhibits, as by magic, those quicksands of crime, and error, it should be our duty to shun in the future. As a matter of reverence, we look on the Roman, as the son in filial duty should look upon his father: the Roman taught us warfare and self defence; what is better, too, he taught us agriculture ; nay, indeed, every science those early days could in- culcate. B