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Title: Beacon lights of history. (The world's heroes and master minds)
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Lord, John, 1810-1894
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Publisher: New York, J. Clarke
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto
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LORDS LECTURES BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY. By JOHN LORD, LL.D., i^THOB or TSK CD KOMA,. WOI,I.D, MODKB» BimOM/ ETC., ETC. Volume I.THE OLD PAGAN CIVILIZATIONS. New Yokk:JAMES CLARKE AND CO. Copyright, 1883, 1888,By John Lord. him I ^a tfje Plemorg ofMARY PORTER LORD, WHOSE FRIENDSHIP AND APPRECIATION AS A DEVOTED WIFE ENCOURAGED ME TO A LONG LIFE OF HISTORICAL LABORS, IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATEDBY THE AUTHOR. PUBLISHERS NOTE. IN preparing a new edition of Dr. Lords great work,the Beacon Lights of History, it has been nec-essary to make some rearrangement of lectures andvolumes. Dr. Lord began with his volume on classic Antiquity, and not until he had completed five vol-umes did he return to the remoter times of Old PaganCivilizations (reaching back to Assyria and Egypt)and the Jewish Heroes and Prophets. These issued,he took up again the line of great men and movements,and brought it down to modern days. The Old Pagan Civilizations, of course, stretchthousands of years b
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