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Rh Mortality: Towns, Countries, and Religions, have their Periods.

Thebes, Nineveh, &c. are now no more.

Oppida posse mori, Si quæras Helicen & Burin, Achaidas Urbes, Invenies sub Aquis.

They have a determined Time to flourish, decay, and die in. Corn grows where Troy stood: Carthage is blotted out. Greece and her Republicks (Athens, Sparta, Corinth,) with other fam’d Asian and African Cities the Turkish Monarchy has overturned. Their Magnificence, Wealth, Learning, and Worship, is changed into Poverty and Ignorance; and Rome, the Mother of all, overrun with Superstition. Who, on the one hand, but feels an inexpressible Pleasure in treading over that Ground, he supposes such Men inhabited,