THE GRECIAN HISTORY, FROM THE EARLIEST STATE TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT. BY DR. GOLDSMITH. e TWO VOLS. IN ONE. REVISED AND CORRECTED, AND A VOCABULARY OF PROPER NAMES PRONUNCIATION. BY WILLIAM GRIMSHAW. Philadelphia: STEREOTYPEĎ BY J. HOWE. PUBLISHED BY JOHN GRIGG, No. 9, NORTH 4th-ST. PRINTED BY WILLIAM PILKINGTON. Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the nineteenth day of June, L. S.) in the fiftieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1826, JOHN GRIGG, of the said District, nath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "The Grecian History, from the earliest state to the death of Alexander the Great. By DR. GOLDSMITH. Two volumes in one. Revised and corrected, and a Vocabulary of Proper Names appended; with Prosodial Marks, to assist in their Pronunciation; by WILLIAM GRIMSHAW." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" And also to the Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, 'An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania General libr. Ralph Beebe.. 12-6-39 ADVERTISEMENT. WHEN, many years ago, I offered to the Public, a revised edition of Goldsmith's Rome, I judged it necessary to accompany it with. my reasons for so bold an attempt, and an exposition of the principal faults of the original. To that exposition, as well as to this revised edition of the History of Greece, by the same author, I refer the curious in literature; that they may decide, whether or not I have been warranted, in attempting an improvement, or have been inexcusably presumptuous. Bold, indeed, may seem the undertaking, to improve the pages of an author, of whom the great moralist and lexicographer has said, "Non tetigit, quod non ornavit." This compliment, however, that fastidious critic certainly did not apply to Dr. Goldsmith, as an Historian. In history, scarcely any other writer has so completely failed. Nothing but his high merit, in other walks of literature, could have prolonged the existence of his works, in this branch of composition, for so great a length of time. He wrote with too great rapidity, for an historian, and, consequently, without a due regard to the |