Author: UNKNOWN. AUTHOR

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9781330375303

Excerpt from An Universal History, Vol. 1: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time History is, without all doubt, the most instructive, as well as entertaining, part of literature; more especially when not circumscribed by the narrow limits of any particular time of place, but when it extends to the transactions of all times and nations. History carries our knowledge, as Tully observes, beyond the vast and devouring space of numberless years, thus triumphing over time, and making us, though living at an immense distance, in a manner eye-witnesses of all the events which have occasioned astonishing revolutions in the world. By these records it is that we live, as it were, in the very age when the world was created; we behold how it was governed in its infant state; how overwhelmed by a deluge of water, and again peopled; how kings and kingdoms have risen, flourished, and declined, and by what means they brought upon themselves their final destruction. From these and other like events, every judicious reader may form unerring rules for the conduct of life, both in a public and private capacity. But as the eminent advantages accruing to us from this valuable branch of learning, have been sufficiently displayed by many others, we shall not trouble our readers with a detail of them, but hasten to what is peculiar to the Work, which we now offer to the Public. Our intention was to write a General History of Mankind, from the earliest Account of Time to the present. 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.