TAILIEUCHUNG - Cyrus the Great Makers of History

Cyrus was the founder of the ancient Persian empire--a monarchy, perhaps, the most wealthy and magnificent which the world has ever seen. Of that strange and incomprehensible principle of human nature, under the influence of which vast masses of men, notwithstanding the universal instinct of aversion to control, combine, under certain circumstances, by millions and millions, to maintain, for many successive centuries, the representatives of some one great family in a condition of exalted, and absolute, and utterly irresponsible ascendency over themselves, while they toil for them, watch over them, submit to endless and most humiliating privations in their behalf, and commit, if commanded to do. | Cyrus the Great by Jacob Abbott 1 Cyrus the Great by Jacob Abbott The Project Gutenberg EBook of Cyrus the Great by Jacob Abbott This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Cyrus the Great Makers of History Author Jacob Abbott Release Date December 18 2009 EBook 30707 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CYRUS THE GREAT Cyrus the Great by Jacob Abbott 2 Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Makers of History Cyrus the Great BY 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. Copyright 1878 by JACOB ABBOTT. Illustration MAP OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE. PREFACE. One special object which the author of this series has had in view in the plan and method which he has followed in the preparation of the successive volumes has been to adapt them to the purposes of text-books in schools. The study of a general compend of history such as is frequently used as a text-book is highly useful if it comes in at the right stage of education when the mind is sufficiently matured and has acquired sufficient preliminary knowledge to understand and appreciate so condensed a generalization as a summary of the whole history of a nation contained in an ordinary volume must necessarily be. Without this degree of maturity of mind and this preparation the study of such a work will be as it too frequently is a mere mechanical committing to memory of names and dates and phrases which awaken no .

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• Jacob Abbott
• Jacob Abbott
• Philip repudiates Olympias
• Alexander
• history
• Great Makers
• Lysimachus
• THE PTOLEMIES
• ALEXANDRIA
• CLEOPATRA
• ANTONY
• Character of Alexander
• archbishop laud
• Princess Anne
• captivity
• trial
• escurial
• Frontispiece