Excerpt from Blair's Outlines of Ancient History: On a New Plan, Embracing Biographical Notices of Illustrious Persons; General Views of the Geography, Population, Politics, Religion, Military and Naval Affairs, Arts, Literature, Manners, Customs, and Society of Ancient Nations Speaking in the way of aphorism, history is a record of what God has done, and of what he has either enabled, or suffered man to do, on the stage of the world. Even, therefore, without the direct comments of the writer, which nevertheless are due, we can derive important instruction from it; and can hardly help being impressed with the grandeur, or solemnity of the movements of Providence, in the destiny of nations. 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.