Excerpt from The Aegis of England; Or the Triumphs of the Late War, as They Appear in the Thanks of Parliament, Progressively Voted to the Navy and Army; And the Communications Either Oral or Written on the Subject Uncertain as are the forms of the honors of antiquity, of which none approach nearer 'to those of the present time than the lan reated tablets permitted to the Roman ge nerals, and those metrical compositions of the soldiery, which Livy, while he recorded, could not admit to his pages the value of just eulogy is every where recognized. The Wisdom of Greece proclaimed that the voice of praise is sweet! The delicate ph. 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.