. The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians. Translated from the French. fc \ S«^. 3135143 PREFACE. THK USEFULNKSS OF PROFANE HISTORY, ESPECIALLY WITH REGARDTO RELIGION. The study of profane history would little deserve to have a seriousattention, and a considerable length of time bestowed upon it, if it wereconfined to the bare knowledge of ancient transactions, and an uninterestingenquiry into the seras when each of them happened. It little concerns usto know, tliat there were once such men as Alexander, Csesar,
. The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians. Translated from the French. fc \ S«^. 3135143 PREFACE. THK USEFULNKSS OF PROFANE HISTORY, ESPECIALLY WITH REGARDTO RELIGION. The study of profane history would little deserve to have a seriousattention, and a considerable length of time bestowed upon it, if it wereconfined to the bare knowledge of ancient transactions, and an uninterestingenquiry into the seras when each of them happened. It little concerns usto know, tliat there were once such men as Alexander, Csesar, Aristides, or ^ Cato, and that they lived in this or that period ; that the empire of the As-syrians made way for that of the Babylonians, and the latter for the empireof the Medes and Persians, wlio were themselves stibjected by the Mace-donians, as these were afterwards by the Romans. But it highly concerns us to know, by what methods those empires werefounded ; by what steps they rose to that exalted pitch of grandeur whichwe so much admire; what it was that constituted their true glory and felicity ;and what were the causes of their declension and fall
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