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Excerpt from The World's Great Empires: A Course of Eight Lectures Another book, among many, is here presented to the public; a book which has grown out of and into providential circumstances. It is, as it purports to be, a course of lectures Of the world's great empires, and is but the written counterpart of verbal lectures which the authoress has been giving during the last three years, in different places, except that in the book the lectures are more full and complete than they have been as given on the platform, Where want of time has often made brief what in the book is more elaborate and complete, when necessary, for the interests of the subjects presented. To facilitate the study of the subjects presented, the system of marginal notes has been adopted for the book, by which all the important events, names and dates can be traced readily, so that what is in the text of the book can be the more readily found. As there are only eight lectures, there are eight divisions of the book, and therefore the marginal notes are of the greater value. One can readily see at once the importance of these notes, and the increased value which they give to the book. The character of the book is peculiar to itself: no other similar one ever having been published. 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.