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PREFACE.
The history of the life of every individual who has, for any reason, attracted
extensively the attention of mankind, has been written in a great variety of ways
by a multitude of authors, and persons sometimes wonder why we should have
so many different accounts of the same thing. The reason is, that each one of
these accounts is intended for a different set of readers, who read with ideas and
purposes widely dissimilar from each other. Among the twenty millions of
people in the United States, there are perhaps two millions, between the ages of
fifteen and twenty-five, who wish to become acquainted, in general, with the
leading events in the history of the Old World, and of ancient times, but who,
coming upon the stage in this land and at this period, have ideas and conceptions
so widely different from those of other nations and of other times, that a mere
republication of existing accounts is not what they require. The story must be
told expressly for them. The things that are to be explained, the points that are to
be brought out, the comparative degree of prominence to be given to the various
particulars, will all be different, on account of the difference in the situation, the
ideas, and the objects of these new readers, compared with those of the various
other classes of readers which former authors have had in view. It is for this
reason, and with this view, that the present series of historical narratives is
presented to the public. The author, having had some opportunity to become
acquainted with the position, the ideas, and the intellectual wants of those whom
he addresses, presents the result of his labors to them, with the hope that it may
be found successful in accomplishing its design
Deskripsi
JACOB ABBOTT
WITH ENGRAVINGS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1902
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand
eight hundred and forty-nine, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District
of New York.
Copyright, 1876, by JACOB ABBOTT.
