another country. Sometimes, the events of one nation are of high importance; sometimes those of another nation. The gradual progress of a nation to power, and the gradual decline and extinction of that power must be familiar to every one who is, in the slightest degree, асquainted with history. The wheel of power, like the fabled wheel of fortune, is continually revolving; and, as one nation, in one century, takes the lead in importance and influence; the next views it sunk into insignificance, and consequently very unproductive of peculiar or striking events.
Some, however, may object, that we shall not be able to distinguish any particular event, so as to assign this event to its proper country. There can be, however, no fear of this. Some particular circumstances connected with, and inseparable from, the fact itself, cannot fail to distinguish the country in which this event happened, whether in England, France, Spain, Germany, or any other part of the world.
Hitherto that period of time only has been considered which is posterior to the Birth of Christ. Antecedently to this period, however, there is a space of four thousand and four years. This time, though embracing a large number of years, is by no means so pregnant with events as that after the Birth of Christ.
