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Excerpt from Valerian, a Narrative Poem: Intended, in Part, to Describe, the Early Persecutions of Christians and Rapidly to Illustrate the Influence of Christianity on the Manners of Nations Those phantoms which genius produces, and taste embellishes, had a powerful inuence over the imagination of Mr. Linn. External objects were habitually viewed by him through a poetical medium, and seldom through any other. Their attractions, in his eyes, and their merit, consisted almost wholly in their power to inspire emotion, and exalt the fancy. The deductions of pure science, whether mathematical, physical, or moral, he held in very slender estimation their simplicity was to him naked and insipid, dreary and cold. His natural temper, and all his habits of meditation, emi uently fitted him for a poet; the subject of this work had been familiar to his earliest conceptions and he expatiated in this element as in one most congenial to his nature. 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.