The following excerpt is a portion of it: "Pius Papa IX to the People of the States of ItalyHealth and Apostolic Benediction:

Today and destiny; vital excerpts from The decline of the West. Arranged with an introd.

Retold & illustrated with 51 musical excerpts from the opera arranged by Angela Diller.

In the fifth edition (1721) of Gherardi's Théâtre Italien there are far fuller excerpts from the farce than in the first edition (1695).

When, however, they besought him not to abandon either himself or them, he waited until the rest, at report of the news, had come running together, and then, after some muttered words to himself, he delivered to the soldiers a speech, from which the following is a brief excerpt: [Sidenote:13] "Enough, quite enough, has already been done.

Having occasionally (during my lucubrations) marked out sundry choice excerpts, quips, and quiddities, from a variety of authors, I shall, with your permission, submit to the reader an occasional chapter, with a few original remarks, &c., which I hope will prove agreeable.

He covered thousands of pages with his pencil notes, annotated large and numerous volumes, filled huge folios with valuable excerpts from newspapers, illustrated processes of thought with diagrams, and was thus fortified and enriched with stores of knowledge and masses of facts, so digested, combined and arranged, that he had them at his easy command to defend the past or to help him onward to fresh conquests in the fields of truth.

" These and other foolish excerpts were kept before their readers by the "Aurora" and "Boston Chronicle," leading Democratic organs, and served to sweeten their triumph and to seal the fate of the unlucky Federalists.