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Excerpt from Athens, Its Rise and Fall MY dear sir, - I am not more sensible of the distinction conferred upon me, when you allowed me to inscribe this History with your name, than pleased with an occasion to express my gratitude for the assistance I have derived through out the progress of my labours, from that memorable work, in which you have upheld the celebrity of English learning, and afiorded so imperishable a contribution to our knowledge of the Ancient World. To all who in History look for the true connection between causes and effects, chronology is not a dry and mechanical compilation of barren dates, but the explanation of events and the philosophy of facts. And the publication of the Fasti Hellenici has thrown upon those times, in which an accurate chronological system can best repair what is deficient, and best elucidate what is obscure in the scanty authorities bequeathed to us, all the light of a profound and disciplined intellect, applying the acutest comprehension to the richest erudition, and arriving at its conclusions accord ing to the true spirit of inductive reasoning, which preportions the completeness of the final discovery to the caution of the intermediate process. My obligations to that learning and to those gifts which you have exhibited to the world, are shared by all who in England, or in Europe, study the History, or cultivate the Literature, of Greece. But, in the patient kind ness with which you have permitted me to consult you during the tedious passage of these volumes through the press - in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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 m