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Excerpt from The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies, and Conquests, Vol. 1 of 2: From the Earliest Accounts Till the Division of the Macedonian Empire in the East; Including the History of Literature, Philosophy, and the Fine Arts
Many events, highly interefting to the citizens of Athens or of Sparta, now interef'c no more; concerning many important tranfaétions, anciently too familiar to be ex plained, the Modern Reader will reafonably expeé'c in formation. On fome occafions, therefore, I found it neceffary to concentrate and abridge; on others, to dilate and expatiate; but have never facrificed that due relation of parts to the whole, and to each other, or violated that unity of defign which I was ambitious to attain in the prefent' Hifiory, by condefcending to copy or tranflate. In the Work throughout, I have ventured: to think for myfelf; and my opinions, whether well or: ill founded, are, at leafi, my own.
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