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writing the series of historical narratives to which the
present work pertains, it has been the object of the author
to furnish to the reading community of this country an
accurate and faithful account of the lives and actions of
the several personages that are made successively the
subjects of the volumes, following precisely the story which
has come down to us from ancient times. The writer has
spared no pains to gain access in all cases to the original
sources of information, and has confined himself strictly to
them. The reader may, therefore, feel assured in perusing
any one of these works, that the interest of it is in no
degree indebted to the invention of the author. No
incident, however trivial, is ever added to the original
account, nor are any words even in any case, attributed to a
speaker without express authority. Whatever of interest,
therefore, these stories may possess, is due solely to the
facts themselves which are recorded in them, and to their
being brought together in a plain, simple, and connected
narrative.
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