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A MODERN HISTORY, FROM THE TIME OF LUTHER TO THE FALL OF NAPOLEON.
FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
BY JOHN LORD, A.M., LECTURER ON HISTORY.
PHILADELPHIA: CHARLES DESILVER; CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER; J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & Co. BOSTON: NICHOLS & HALL. CINCINNATI: ROBERT CLARKE & Co; WILSON, HINKLE & Co. SAN FRANCISCO: A. L. BANCROFT & Co.
Chicago: S. C. GRIGGS & Co.--Charleston, S. C.: J. M. Greer & Son; Edward Perry & Son.--Raleigh, N. C.: Williams & Lambeth.--Baltimore, Md.: Cushings & Bailey; W. J. C Dulaney & Co.--New Orleans, La.: Stevens & Seymour.--Savannah, Ga.: J. M. Cooper & Co.--Macon, Ga.: J. M. Boardman.--Augusta, Ga.: Thos. Richards & Son.--Richmond, Va.: Woodhouse & Parham.
1874.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by JOHN LORD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
PREFACE.
In preparing this History, I make no claim to original and profound investigations; but the arrangement, the style, and the sentiments, are my own. I have simply attempted to condense the great and varied subjects which are presented, so as to furnish a connected narrative of what is most vital in the history of the last three hundred years, avoiding both minute details and elaborate disquisitions. It has been my aim to write a book, which should be neither a chronological table nor a philosophical treatise, but a work adapted to the wants of young people in the various stages of education, and which, it is hoped, will also prove interesting to those of maturer age; who have not the leisure to read extensive works, and yet who wish to understand the connection of great events since the Protestant Reformation. Those characters, institutions, reforms, a
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