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Excerpt from A New Universal Biography, Vol. 1: Containing Interesting Accounts, Critical and Historical, of the Lives and Characters, Labours and Actions, of Eminent Persons, in All Ages and Countries, Conditions and Professions; From the Creation to the Birth of Christ To reduce these discordant materials to something like order and harmony, is the grand object of this New Biography. The advantage of reference will be fully preserved by an ample index; so that every defect of former works will be remedied, without risk ing a single advantage. In order to preserve the re ference from the alphabetical index as perfect as'pos sible, every article is rendered complete in itself, the same as in other General Biographies. 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 missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.