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IV, Makers of History, by John S. C. Abbott
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Title: Henry IV, Makers of History
Author: John S. C. Abbott
Release Date: August 3, 2009 [EBook #29603]
Language: English
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Makers of History
Henry IV.
BY JOHN S. C. 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-six, by
HARPER & BROTHERS,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.
Copyright, 1884, by SUSAN ABBOT MEAD.
PREFACE.
History is our Heaven-appointed instructor. It is the guide for the future. The calamities of yesterday are the protectors of to-day.
The sea of time we navigate is full of perils. But it is not an unknown sea. It has been traversed for ages, and there is not a sunken rock or a treacherous sand-bar which is not marked by the wreck of those who have preceded us.
There is no portion of history fraught with more valuable