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as well as to the plain peo
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william Mckinley.
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tory of the World of very
great value, and hope it will
find a place generally in tho
libraries of our schools, as
well as upon the .shelves of
readers in every walk of life.
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The Commoner Readers are Offered the Opportunity of a Life Time
To place in your homes the World-Famed Publication
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Brand new, latest edition, brought right down to date, including Peace Treaty of the Russia-Japan War, beautifully bound in Half Morocco.
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QEDPATH is recognized as America's greatest historian. He was a strong advocate of the rights and liberties of the common people.
In 1896 he was the Democratic Nominee for Congress in his home district, and received the warm support of the Leader of the
Party. He was a great man and a great historian. 'D. Eidpath is dead but his, work lives. He devoted his entire life to writing the
History of the World. It is absolutely accurate and impartial, and commands the admiration of the English speaking world.
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RrDPATH takes you back to the dawn of history, long before the
pyramids of Egypt were built; down . through the romantic
troubled times of Chaldea's grandeur and Assyria's magnific&nce; of
Babylonia's wealth and luxury; of . Grecian and Roman 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
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RIDPATH throws the mantle of personality over the old heroes of his
tory. Alexander is there; patriot, warrior, statesman, diplomat,
crowning the glory of Grecian history. Xerxes, from-his mountain
platform, sees Themisiocles with three hundred and fifty Greek ships
smash his Persian fleet of over a thousand sail, and help to mould the
language in which this paragraph is written. Rome perches Nero upon
the greatest throne on earth, and so sets up a poor madman's name to
stand for countless centuries as the synonym of savage cruelty; Napo
lecm fights Waterloo again under your very eyes, and reels
oeiore me iron tact mat at last the end of his gilded dream
has come. Bismarck is there, gruff, overbearing, a giant
pugilist In the diplomatic ring, laughing with grim disdain
at France, which says, "You shall not." Washington is
there, "four-square to all the winds," grave, thoughtful,
proof against the wiles of British strategy and the poisoned
darts of false friends; clear-seeing over the heads of his
fellow-countrymen, and on into another Century, the most
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