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THE

HISTORY OF ENGLAND:

WITH A SKETCH OF

OUR INDIAN AND COLONIAL EMPIRE.

Бу

WILLIAM FRANCIS COLLIER, LL.D.,

Trinity College, Dublin;

Author of "School History of the British Empire," "History of English Literature," &c.

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T. NELSON AND SONS, PATERNOSTER ROW;
EDINBURGH; AND NEW YORK.

200, x. 32.

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PREFACE.

THIS book is by no means a nere expansion of my smaller British History. In structure and a style t is completely a new work, written not so much for school-ons as for senior students, and such general readers is may wish to new the panorama of the British Nation, infolded thinnaea mparatively small. A broader canvas has given rom ar he atroduction figures, incidents, and details, which bud nn le a he lighter sketch; and, instead of adopting the common frame work of division, afforded by the suc cession of Dynasties and Soverign I have preferred, for the purpose of giving my readers and more comprehensive view of the subject, to select a central points and bases of division those colossal

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