Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Rule of the Monk, Vol. 1 of 2: Or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century
The world has been contented to begin there with him, for the last two thousand years; and the fact is a great precedent against prefaces - especially since, as a rule, no one ever reads them till the book itself has been perused.
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