CHAPTER 23 -- None but the guilty can be long and completely miserable CHAPTER 24 -- Fresh calamities CHAPTER 25 -- No situation, however wretched it seems, but has some sort of comfort attending it CHAPTER 26 -- A reformation in the gaol. To make laws complete, they should reward as well as punish CHAPTER 27 -- The same subject continued CHAPTER 28 -- Happiness and misery rather the result of prudence than of virtue in this life. Temporal evils or felicities being regarded by heaven as things merely in themselves trifling and unworthy its care in the distribution CHAPTER 29 -- The equal dealings of providence demonstrated with regard to the happy and the miserable here below. That from the nature of pleasure and pain, the wretched must be repaid the balance of their sufferings in the life hereafter CHAPTER 30 -- Happier prospects begin to appear. Let us be inflexible, and fortune will at last change in our favour CHAPTER 31 -- Former benevolence now repaid with unexpected interest CHAPTER 32. -- The Conclusion HISTORY OF ROME: By Oliver Goldsmith CONTENTS INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER PAGE I. Geographical Outline of Italy 11 II. The Latin Language and People—Credibility of the Early History 18 III. Topography of Rome 23 IV. The Roman Constitution 30 V. The Roman Tenure of Land—Colonial Government 37 VI. The Roman Religion 39 VII. The Roman Army and Navy 43 VIII. Roman Law.—Finance 51 IX. The public Amusements and private Life of the Romans 55 X. Geography of the empire at the time of its greatest extent 59 HISTORY.