UNIVERSAL BIOGRAPHY,

CONTAINING
INTERESTING ACCOUNTS,

CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL,

OF THE

LIVES AND CHARACTERS, LABOURS AND ACTIONS,

OF

EMINENT PERSONS,

IN ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES, CONDITIONS AND PROFESSIONS ;
CLASSED ACCORDING TO THEIR VARIOUS TÅLÉNTS, AND PURSUITS ;

AND

ARRANGED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER;

SHOWING

THE PROGRESS OF MEN AND THINGS, FROM THE BEGINNING OF

THE WORLD TO THE PRESENT TIME.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX FOR REFERENCE.

BY THE
REV. JOHN PLATTS,
AUTHOR OF THE NEW SELF-INTERPRETING TESTAMENT,

&c. &c.

Presented stor Libras
by boseph Jimms MD,

LONDON: 1:me 3,

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