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as long as the World it self shall endure. Were you Germans Savage of old; be ye now civil beyond most of the Nations in Europe; were you Brittons rude and poor? Do ye now emulate the Egyptians and Sybarites in riches and luxury. Did Greece heretofore flourish? Let her now lye wast. Did Italy sway the Scepter? She shall now obey. You Goths, you Vandalls, you refuse of the Barbarians; forsake your Dens, and in your successive courses command the Nations. Come hither also you pelted Scythians, and for a while, with a strong hand, rule both Asia and Europe: But do you your selves after a while depart, and resigne the Scepter to the Nation bounded by the Ocean. For is it my Fancy only? Or do I indeed descry I know not what Sun of a new Empire arising from the West?