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Excerpt from History of Greece, Vol. 1: I. Legendary Greece, II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peistratus at Athens Tm: first idea of this History was conceived many year! Ago, at a time when ancient Hellas was known to the English public chiey through the pages of Mitford; and my purpose -in writing it was to rectify the erroneous statements as to matter of fact which that History contained, as well as to pre sent the general phenomena of the Grecian world under what I thought a juster and more comprehensive point of view. My leisure, however, was not at that time equal to the execution of any large literary undertaking nor is it until within the last three or four years that I have been able to devote to the work that continuous and exclusive labor, without which, though much may be done to illustrate detached points, no entire or complicated subject can ever be set forth in a man ner worthy to meet the public eye. 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.