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NAPOLEON'S namo fills more pages in the world's solemn history than that of any other mortal. The advance of his Grand Army into Russia is the turning
point in his career and marks the beginning of his downfall. The picture shown herewith from Ridpath's History, the original of which was displayed at
tho World's fair at Chicap-Oi marks but one event out of thousands which are fully described and illustrated in the world-famed publication.
HISTORY OF THE
The PUBLISHER'S FAILURE placed in our hands the entire unsold edition of this monumental work, brand new,
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troubled times of Chaldea's grandeur and Assyria's magnificence: of
j.uu.uo ou.iuu aim luiuiy, ui ureuian ana ttoman splendor: of
Mohammedan culture and refinement; of French elegance and British
power; of American patriotism and religious freedom, to the dawn of
yesterday. He covers every race, every nation, every time, and holds
you spellbound by 'Us wonderful eloquence. Nothing more interesting,
absorbing and inspiring was ever written by man. b'
niDPATH throws tho mantle of personality over the old heroes of his
Jl!Li li AI1exall(Iel, is there; patriot, warrior, statesman, diplomat
crowning the glory of Grecian history. Xerxes, from his mounTain
Platform sees Themistocles with three hundred and Sty GrSk SSm
? h,B. Pei5a; ?,eet f 0Ver a thound sail, and he lp to mouJd thl
language in which this paragraph is written. Rome perches Nero u Don
tho greatest throne on earth, and so sets up a poor mad- P
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ff TnlTJy' t P2e,S bef0re tlle iron f act tllat at last
the end of his gilded dream has come. Washington is
there, "four-square to all the winds," grave thoughtful
proof against the wiles ef British strategy Z le )0 Ce
?5w a 8G frIeUds;1 olear-seeinS over the heads of his
fellow-countrymen, and on into another Century, the most
colossal world-figure of his time.
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