Excerpt from An Epitome of History, or a Concise View of the Most Important Revolutions, and Events, Which Are Recorded in the Histories of the Principal Empires, Kingdoms, States, and Republics, Now Subsisting in the World: Also Their Forms of GovernmentThe defign of the prefent work is to give fuch a fbort view of Billory as may inform young minds, and give them a general idea of a (object, which it would be the employment of a whole life to be fully acquainted with, at the fame time that it may be found, in fome meafure, ufeful to thofe of maturer years and'more informed minds; and as nothing upon the'plan of the prefent work has yet been attempted, the Author is encouraged to hope that his endeavours may not be found altogether 'ineffe6tual.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.