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Excerpt from Historical Class Book: Containing Sketches of History, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Roman Empire in Italy, A. D. 476
Sectiond. Mankind have a natural curiosity to know what is doing, What has been done, and what is to be expected. It IS founded In sympathy. As one man may have acquired, avoided, suffered, or enjoy ed, so may another. 'as nations are made up of men, and begin, go on, and end, as human life does, curiosity extends to the causes and effects of national prosperity, adver sity, decline, and extinction. As the history of an indi vidual's life may be instructive, and monitory, SO may the' history Of nations be to all who make it a study. I one Can see in the vicissitudes of a particular life, a combination Of circumstances, wherein the adoption of one course Of conduct would have led to security and honour, and another, to dependence and misery, so may it be, In the affairs of nations.
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