History of Rome, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint): For the Use of Schools: For the Use of Schools (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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In the volume now offered to the public, it is the intention of the author to connect the most important events of Roman history, from the foundation of Rome to the death of Constantine. That these events may be more easily fixed upon the memory, it is thought advisable to separate the narrative into three parts.

Part I. is confined to that period known as the monarchy, which, although very properly regarded as wholly fabulous, is the only foundation that can be obtained for a history upon whose pages almost all the nations of the earth appear.

Part II. gives briefly the narratives which make up the history of the Republic of Rome, and which are rendered none the less instructive to the general reader, and certainly none the less essential to the student, by reason of the abundant acuteness evinced by Beaufort and Niebuhr in disproving the testimonies of Livy and Dionysius. Indeed, a very good knowledge of these narratives is necessary, in order that either pleasure or profit may be derived from the writings of these modern historians.

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