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Title: History of Nero
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
Subjects: Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68 Emperors
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ABBOTTS BIQCtRaPKIOAL HISTORII^S. I want to thaiik you and yourbrother for Abbotts series of !^i»-tories, I have not education enoughto appreciate the profound works ofvolu-iinous historians, and if I had,I have no ti le to read theu. Putyour series of Histories ^ives _.ie,in brief co:apas6, just that knowl-edge of past events which I need, Ihave read theii with the -reatest in-terest. To the.i I ai indebted forabout all the historical knowledf^eI have. The above is froM J.S.C.Abbottsinterview with Lincoln, and is re-corded in the I669 issue of thesebiographies,- in the preface. A/^ (?7cx^^^i^u^\^ ^J Digitized by the Internet Arclnive in 2010 with funding from The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant www.archive.org/details/historyofneroOOabbo
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HISTORY NERO. BY JACOB ABBOTT. IBitti (gngranings. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. FBAKKLIN BQUAEE. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousandeight iHindred and fifty-three, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern Districtof New York. oXo a. m^ oaA^-^-f PREFACE In writing the series of historical narratives towliicli the present work pertains, it has been theobject of the author to furnish to the reading com-munity of this country an accurate and faithfulaccount of the lives and actions of the several per-sonages that are made successively the subjects ofthe volumes, following precisely the story which hascome down to us from ancient times. The writerhas spared no pains to gain access in all cases to theoriginal sources of information, and has confinedhimself strictly to them. The reader may, therefore,feel assured in perusing any one of these works, thatthe interest of it is in no degree indebted to thehistoryofnero00abbo

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