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AN

OUTLINE OF THE HISTORY

OF

ANCIENT AND MODERN

ROME;

COMPRISING

AN ACCOUNT OF ITALY,

FROM ITS MOST REMOTE ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENT TIME,

AND EMBODYING

THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY,

FROM ITS EARLIEST DATE.

IN QUESTION AND ANSWER.

BY

MRS. CHARLES DE HAVILLAND.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY HOULSTON & STONEMAN,

65, PATERNOSTER row.

1840.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY RICHARD CLAY, BREAD STREET HILL.

PREFACE.

THIS Second Edition of an outline of the "History of Ancient and Modern Rome," has been carefully revised by the authoress, and a few additional questions, which are no less entertaining than instructive, have been introduced. In the preface of the first edition is enumerated the various authors from whose works her book is compiled, and other recent publications have since then been consulted, in order that the facts selected for the memory of youth should be based on the best possible authority. In saying this, it is necessary to notice that the occasional discrepancy of historians renders some exercise of private judgment unavoidable, for it not unfrequently happens that

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