Excerpt from The Unity of History, or Outlines of Lectures on Ancient and Modern History, Considered on the Principles of the Church of EnglandDoubtless all the above writers have very great merits as histo rians, narrators, and philosophers but their anti-christian or bereti cal Opinions make their works more dangerous than useful; and the fact is a startling one, that our youth draws its historical know ledge mainly from such impure wells.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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