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selecting the subjects for the successive volumes of this
series it has been the object of the author to look for the
names of those great personages whose histories constitute
useful, and not merely entertaining, knowledge. There are
certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind;
and every person who seeks for any degree of mental
cultivation feels desirous of informing himself of the
leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in
brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which
has given them so widely-extended a fame. This knowledge,
which it seems incumbent on every one to obtain in respect
to such personages as Hannibal, Alexander, Cæsar, Cleopatra,
Darius, Xerxes, Alfred, William the Conqueror, Queen
Elizabeth, and Mary, queen of Scots, it is the design and
object of these volumes to communicate, in a faithful, and,
at the same time, if possible, in an attractive manner.
Consequently, great historical names alone are selected; and
it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and
leading traits in their characters, and all the important
events in their lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in
the plain and simple language which is so obviously required
in works which aim at permanent and practical usefulness.
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