Excerpt from Moses, the Law-Giver For the photograph from which has been made the en graving of the famous statue in which Michael Angelo has embodied his noble conception of the great law-giver, I have been indebted to the kindness of a friend, who sent it from Rome with the request that it should be made the frontis piece of this volume. 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.