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Specimens of Prose Description
Charles Sears Baldwin
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It is suggested, first, that the comparison be enlarged by study of the Egyptian plagues in Exodus (capp. vii-xii), of the pestilence at Athens as described by Thucydides (Book ii, § 47-53, of Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year^ or of Dr.
Hecker's Black Death (translated in Cassell's National Library, paper) ; and, secondly, that comparisons be introduced through- out the study of this volume, of one selection with another, or of any selection with some parallel drawn from the teacher's reading
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^Ethiopia and Egypt have been stigmatized in every age as the original source and seminary of the plague. In a damp, hot, stagnating air, this African fever is generated from the putrefaction of animal sub- stances, and especially from the swarms of locusts, not less destructive to mankind in their death than in their lives. The fatal disease which depopulated the earth in the time of Justinian and his successors first ap- * Printed, by kind permission of Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons, from.


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