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AN

UNIVERSAL HISTORY,

FROM THE

Beginning of the World,

TO THE

EMPIRE OF CHARLEMAGNE.

BY M. BOSSUET,

Late Bishop of Meaux, formerly Preceptor to the Dauphin.

TRANSLATED FROM

THE THIRTEENTH EDITION OF THE ORIGINAL,

BY MR. EPHILSTONE.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY ROBERT MOORE, BOOKSELLER.

J. & J. Harper, Printers.

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Publisher deems it presumptuous to offer any remarks on the merits of this valuable publication. The learning and eloquence of Bishop BoSSUET is so universally known and acknowledged by all acquainted with ancient literature, that remarks or recommendations are deemed useless, and as respects little or narrow minds, might prove injurious: aware of the dangers attending a partial recommendation, as likewise the difficulty of procuring a recommendation which would embrace the leaders of all sects and parties, the Publisher exercises, in this, as in all the works he has hitherto published, the best of his own judgment, and solicits the patronage of all who approve his choice.

PREFACE.

OUR author having, in his introduction, so beautifully set forth the extensive usefulness of history in general, and of a chronological abridgment in particular; and consequently explained the design of the following work; it were eqally presumptuous and unnecessary to say any thing here on those subjects.

No less were it impertinent to offer any new intelligence to the learned world about a performance which hath been so long its admiration; or to recommend to it an author, whose name passes all encomium. It is well known, that, whereas all other universal historians give rather a

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