Darius the Great, by Jacob Abbott

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Title: Darius the Great Makers of History

Author: Jacob Abbott

Release Date: January 13, 2009 [EBook #27802]

Language: English

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Makers of History

Darius the Great

JACOB ABBOTT

WITH ENGRAVINGS

NEW YORK AND LONDON

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

1904

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

[Illustration: DARIUS CROSSING THE BOSPORUS.]

PREFACE.

In describing the character and the action of the personages whose histories form the subjects of this series, the writer makes no attempt to darken the colors in which he depicts their deeds of violence and wrong, or to increase, by indignant denunciations, the obloquy which heroes and conquerors have so often brought upon themselves, in the estimation of mankind, by the

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