The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Merry Tales of the Three Wise Men of Gotham Although most of the celebrated cities of antiquity have been described with such accuracy, and their situations pointed out with so much precision, that there is little difficulty in at least making a tolerable guess at their remains; yet are there two most remarkable exceptions. To this day no one has succeeded in establishing beyond question where Babylon once stood, and still less have the most indefatigable inquiries even led to a reasonable conjecture as to the site of the little less renowned city of Gotham. No circumstance can furnish a higher proof of the superiority of the works of the head over those of the hands, than that the fame of these two great cities should have been preserved in books long after every other certain vestige of their existence had perished from the face of the earth. History, sacred and profane, alone preserves the remembrance of Babylon; and of Gotham we possess scarcely any other memorial than the immortal lines to be found in the titlepage of this work. And this example furnishes a striking proof of the importance of heroes, poets, and philosophers, in cities and states. How many of these have been utterly forgotten in the lapse of time, merely for want of some great man to rescue them from oblivion! 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.
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