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by
ANDREW DICKSON WHITE
LL.D. (Yale), L.H.D. (Columbia), PH.DR.
(Jena)
Late President and Professor of History at Cornell University
Two Volumes Combined
New York
D. Appleton and Company
1898
Copyright, 1896
By D. Appleton and Company.
To the Memory of
EZRA CORNELL
I Dedicate this Book.
Thoughts that great hearts once broke for, we
Breathe cheaply in the common air. - LOWELL
Dicipulus est prioris posterior dies. - PUBLIUS SYRUS
Truth is the daughter of Time. - BACON
The Truth shall make you free. - ST. JOHN, viii, 32. Introduction