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It was a toy, a plaything, a showbox, in which the gods seemed pleased to keep the representation of the great monarchy of earth, and which they afterwards hid from time, to give to the wonder of posterity the moral of the maxim, that under the sun there is nothing new. Crowded in the glassy bay were the vessels of commerce and the gilded galleys for the pleasures of the rich citizens.
It is the largest and most varied showbox in all history; a prelude to a series of battle-pieces Rossbach, Leuthen, Molwitz, Zorndorf nowhere else, save in the author's own pages, approached in prose, and rarely rivalled out of Homer's verse.
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