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HISTORY 



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T does not, at firft fight, feem introh- 

 necefTary to write an Introdu- Sion. 

 dion to a Hiftory which is 

 but an Introdudion itfelf : But 

 coiifidering that it is the firft 

 that has appear 'd in this kind, it may not be 

 improper to give a (hort Account of its Ufes 

 to the World. 



Tis certain, there is no kind of Hiftory io 

 eagerly catch'd at, as the valisnt Atchi^ve- 

 tnents, Heroick Examples and Lives Of 

 Great Soldiers, and the folemn Debates and 

 Cauncils of Learned Statefmen and Senators % 

 Yet the Lives of thofe that hate been emi- 



