THE HISTORY OF GREECE, PROM THE EARLIEST STATE ΤΟ THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH, M. B. To which is added, A SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIRS OF GREECE, FROM THAT PERIOD TO THE SACKING OF CONSTANTINOPLE BY THE OTHOMANS. A NEW EDITION, COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. LONDON: PRINTED FOR W. BAYNES AND SON, PATERNOSTER ROW; T. TEGG, CHEAPSIDE; AND H. S. BAYNES AND CO. EDINBURGH. 1825. ADVERTISEMENT. FROM the times of Alexander to the sacking of Constantinople by the Turks, a period of fifteen centuries, the Grecian states, being under the influence of foreign councils and the control of foreign arms, had lost their existence as a nation. But neither did they submit to slavery without a struggle, nor did the power which subverted their government deface, at once, their national character, or destroy, but by degrees, the various effects which flowed from their original genius and political institutions. In what is subjoined, in this edition, to the narrative of Dr. GOLDSMITH, it is the aim of the author to trace, amidst the revolutions of nations, the remains of Greece; to take a summary view of her efforts for the recovery of expiring liberty; to trace those features that remained the longest unsullied by the infection of barbarism, and those efforts of genius, which, surviving the dissolution of the state, continued, and still continue, to enlighten and refine the world. ! |