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OF

ENGLISH HISTORY:

FROM THE

Roman Gonquest to the Present Time.

WITH

OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROGRESS OF ART, SCIENCE, AND
CIVILIZATION, AND QUESTIONS ADAPTED TO

EACH PARAGRAPH.

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.

BY

AMELIA B. EDWARDS.

AMERICAN EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

BOSTON:

HICKLING, SWAN, AND BREWER.

1857.

Bu340.17

1863. Sept. 11

gift of

Wm. Frances allen

of west Newton.. (Class of 1851)

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by
HICKLING, SWAN, AND BREWER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

ELECTROTYPED AT THE

BOSTON STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY.

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PREFACE

TO THE AMERICAN EDITION.

A KNOWLEDGE of the history of our own country is of the highest importance to American youth; because a knowledge of its institutions and of the struggles for their introduction and maintenance is necessary to teach the true character of our free institutions, the principles upon which our government is based, and according to which it should be carried on. The history of the United States, as the record of the first civil government that has ever been founded upon the basis of freedom, furnishes lessons upon popular governments, and upon religious, social, and political freedom, of far greater value than can be derived from the record of any other nation, past or present.

Only second in importance, and hardly inferior in point of interest to our own history, is a knowledge of the origin and institutions of that nation and people

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