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Excerpt from Mosaics of Grecian History: The Historical Narrative With Numerous Illustrative Poetic and Prose Selections, a Popular Course of Reading in Grecian History and Literature Oliver goldsmith, the popular poet, the charming novelist, the successful dramatist, and the witty essayist, wrote a popular history of Greece, in two volumes, 8vo, 1774, embracing a period from the earliest date down to the death of Alexander the Great. It is an attractive work, elegantly written, but is superficial and inaccurate. In 1786 was published a history of ancient Greece, in several volumes, by dr. John gillies, who succeeded Dr. Robertson as historiographer of Scotland. This is a work of considerable merit, but it is written in a spirit of decidedly monarchical tendencies, although the author evidently aimed at great fairness in his political views. He says: The history of Greece exposes the dangerous turbulence of democracy, and arraigns the despotism of tyrants. By describing the incurable evils inherent in every republican policy, it evinces the inestimable bene fits resulting to liberty itself from the lawful dominion of hereditary kings, and the steady operation of well-regu lated monarchy. 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.