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Excerpt from Rameses; An Egyptian Tale, Vol. 2 of 3: With Historical Notes, of the Era of the Pharaohs But neither virtuous peasants, nor nations as free from strife as the mild Ethiopians, present a picture so grateful as does that man, (although the transient creature of a day), who nobly suffers in adversity's dark hour with an unconquered mind; who, enthralled in sorrows he cannot surmount, endures them as if foreign to himself. His unshaken spirit, looking on the rushing stream of evils that passes onward and threatens to overwhelm him, believes the mind is free still to enjoy a world whose magnificence cannot be bereft from him. Abandoned and entombed, the wretched Rameses had long and solitary leisure to revolve his vanished hopes and probe his wounded heart, wounded even by a brother in the moment of its warmest cares and strongest efforts for that brother's glory. 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.