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$Title{History Of Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt
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Title: History Of Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt
Book: Cleopatra
Author: Abbott, Jacob
Date: 1900
Preface
In selecting the subjects for the successive volumes of this series it
has been the object of the author to look for the names of those great
personages whose histories constitute useful, and not merely entertaining,
knowledge. There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all
mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation feels
desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that
he may know, in brief, what it was in their characters or their doings which
has given them so widely-extended a fame. This knowledge, which it seems
incumbent on every one to obtain in respect to such personages as Hannibal,
Alexander, Caesar, Cleopatra, Darius, Xerxes, Alfred, William the Conqueror,
Queen Elizabeth, and Mary, queen of Scots, it is the design and object of
these volumes to communicate, in a faithful, and, at the same time, if
possible, in an attractive manner. Consequently, great historical names alone
are selected; and it has been the writer's aim to present the prominent and
leading traits in their characters, and all the important events in their
lives, in a bold and free manner, and yet in the plain and simple language
which is so obviously required in works which aim at permanent and practical
usefulness.