Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History, Vol. 1 of 2 Revolutions of Rome was prior, in point of time, to that of the Jesuits; it was not a continuous history, but, though distin guished by greater excellences of style, it was founded on the same critical principles. (7) The works of Echard, Vertot, Catron, Rollin, and Hooke, serve to characterize the period of unin quiring and uncritical reproduction Of Roman history. Their system was to eliminate marvels and patent improbabilities to reconcile discrepancies; to harmonize the various accounts into a coherent flowing narrative, and to treat the result as well ascertained fact. 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.