ILLUSTRATED BY NUMEROUS GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES AND MAPS EMBRACING PART I. ANCIENT HISTORY. I PART II. MODERN HISTORY. BY MARCIUS WILLSON, AUTHOR OF "AMERICAN HISTORY," "HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES," 82% University Edition. NEW YORK: IVISON & PHINNEY, 321 BROADWAY. BUFFALO: PHINNEY & CO. CINCINNATI: MOORE, WILSTACH, KEYS & 00. NEWBURGH: T. S. QUACKENBUSH. AUBURN SEYMOUR & CO. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by MARCIUS WILLSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. 909 GR. ESTERQUEST PREFACE TO THE UNIVERSITY EDITION.* THE author of the following work submits it to the Public with a few remarks explanatory of its Plan, and of the endeavors of the writer to prepare a useful and interesting text-book on the subject of General History. In the important departments of Grecian and Roman History he has aimed to embody the results of the investigations of the best modern writers, especially Thirlwall and Grote in Grecian, and Niebuhr and Arnold in Roman History; and in both Ancient and Modern History he 2 has carefully examined disputed points of interest, with the hope of avoiding all important antiquated errors. By endeavoring to keep the attention of the student fixed on the history of the most important nations-grouping around them, and treating as of secondary importance, the history of others, and by bringing out in bold relief the main subjects of history, to the exclusion of comparatively unimportant collateral details, he has given greater fulness than would otherwise be possible to Grecian, Roman, German, French, and English history, and preserved a considerable degree of unity in the narrative; while the importance of rendering the whole as interesting to the student as possible, has been kept constantly in view. The numerous Notes throughout the work were not only thought necessary to the geographical elucidation of the narrative, by giving to events a distinct "local habitation," but they also supply much useful explanatory historical information, not easily attainable by the student, and which could not be introduced into the text without frequent digressions that would impair the unity of the subject. In addition to the Table of Contents, which contains a general analysis of the whole work, a somewhat minute analysis of each Chapter or Section, given at the beginning of each, is designed for the use of teachers and pupils, in place of questions. * In the "School Edition," Part III., containing "Outlines of the Philosophy of History," omitted. 777805 |