[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, allother inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling hasbeen maintained.
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FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
BY
LECTURER ON HISTORY.
PHILADELPHIA:
CHARLES DESILVER;
CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER;
J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO.
New York: D. APPLETON & CO. Boston: NICHOLS & HALL.
Cincinnati: ROBERT CLARKE & CO; WILSON, HINKLE & CO.
San Francisco: A. L. BANCROFT & CO.
Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co. — Charleston, S. C.: J. M. Greer & Son; Edward Perry & Son. — Raleigh, N. C.: Williams & Lambeth. — Baltimore, Md.: Cushings & Bailey; W. J. C Dulaney & Co. — New Orleans, La.: Stevens & Seymour. — Savannah, Ga.: J. M. Cooper & Co. — Macon, Ga.: J. M. Boardman. — Augusta, Ga.: Thos. Richards & Son. — Richmond, Va.: Woodhouse & Parham.
1874.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by
JOHN LORD,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
In preparing this History, I make no claim to original and profoundinvestigations; but the arrangement, the style, and the sentiments,are my own. I have simply attempted to condense the great and variedsubjects which are presented, so as to furnish a connected narrativeof what is most vital in the history of the last three hundred years,avoiding both minute details and elaborate disquisitions. It has beenmy aim to write a book, which should be neither a chronological tablenor a philosophical treatise, but a work adapted to the wants of youngpeople in the various stages of education, and which, it is hoped,will also prove interesting to those of maturer age; who have not theleisure to read extensive works, and yet who wish to understand theconnection of great events since the Protestant Reformation. Thosecharacters, institutions, reforms, and agitations, which have had thegreatest influence in advancing society, only have been described, andthese not to the extent which will satisfy the lea