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UNIVERSAL HISTORY:

BEING

AN OUTLINE

OF THE

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY HISTORY AND

OF

THE WORLD.

UNIVERSAL HISTORY:

BEING

AN OUTLINE

OF THE

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY OF THE

WORLD.

DIVIDED INTO PERIODS

Hoc illud est præcipuè IN COGNITIONE RERUM salubre ac frugiferum,-omnis te exempli
documenta in illustri posita monumento intueri; inde tibi tuæque reipublicæ, quod imitere,
capias; inde fœdum inceptu, fœdum exitu, quod vites.-Liv.

Who writes a history, his principal aim should be truth, and to relate especially the ex-
traordinaries both of good and ill. Of good, that men, taken with the honour done them in
story, may be encouraged to perform the like: of ill, that when men see the infamy that they
are branded with, they may leap from all that should make them so stigmatized.

OWEN FELLTHAM.

LONDON:

WHITTAKER & CO., AVE-MARIA LANE.

1838.

864.

WHITING, BEAUFORT HOUSE, STRAND.

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IN my desire to select you as the patron of a book intended in great measure for THE YOUNG, I am well satisfied that all who have had the happiness of a long acquaintance with you will both acquit me of a design to flatter you, and readily approve my choice.

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