Excerpt from The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. 9: Old Series, Complete in LXIII. Vols. January, 1844, to December, 1864; January to June, 1869 The speaker lowered at once his eyes and voice, And pointed upward, as to God in heaven. The origin of government in a state where all the people are industrious is usually simple, and so long as Venice was growing upon her lagunes, its peo ple occupied in building or navigating small boats for their neighbors, rearing islands out of those marshes, of which the most elevated in the middle was called the Rialto, the form of govern. 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.