“Great men are set like diamonds in the world,
of whom the vulgar are ever the first to perceive
the flaws' Life of Wolsey, by CAVENDISH

SECOND EDITION

LONDON

HENRY S. KING & Co., 65 CORNHILL

DEDICATION.

Because, whatever may be due to other Teachers,

IT IS TO MY FATHER ALONE

that I owe any insight into History that I may have

gained, I place on this page a Dedication which

might otherwise seem superfluous.