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Excerpt from The Popular History of England, Vol. 9: An Illustrated History of Society and Government From the Earliest Period to Our Own Times; From the Meetings of Parliament, February, 1849, to the Fall of Lrad Beaconsfield's Second Ministry, April, 1880
Library Of Entertaining Knowledge, when I say that words are inads quate to express our gratitude for the taste for wholesome literature which it was Charles Knight's great desire to create, and for the wide range Of information, which is only second in value to intellectual discipline, - or rather, is its necessary complement. I gladly take this opportunity Of acknowledging, that the reading which he thus provided for my youth served, in a manner and degree for which I have ever since felt grateful, to prepare me for the labours, in literature and education, of now nearly half a century, which began by an association with him and my venerated friend George Long, in the Penny Cyclopaedia. Therefore it is that I offer this volume as the tribute of my regard for the memory of charles knight, as well as a continuation of the historical work which will remain his chief literary monument.
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