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Title: History of Darius the Great
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
Subjects: Darius I, King of Persia, 548-485 B.C
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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HIS T 0 E Y OF DARIU S T HE GREAT. BY JACOBSBBOTT. ftfc SEiiflrabttifis. NEW YORK:HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 82 CLIFF STREET. / ?n. ■ •■■ i . . « \*0 V f * Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousandeight hundred and fifty, by Harper & Brothers, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern Districtof New York. PREFACE. In describing the character and the actionof the personages whose histories form the sub-jects of this series, the writer makes no attemptto darken the colors in which he depicts theirdeeds of violence and wrong, or to increase, byindignant denunciations, the obloquy which he-roes and conquerors have so often brought uponthemselves, in the estimation of mankind, bytheir ambition, their tyranny, or their desperateand reckless crimes. In fact, it seems desirableto diminish, rather than to increase, the spirit ofcensoriousness which often leads men so harshlyto condemn the errors and sins of others, com-mitted in circu

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