THE

BOOK OF TEXTS

ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY, &c.

BY THE

REV. F. A. POWER, M.A., T.C.D.

(VICAR OF BEVINGTON, LIVERPOOL).

1. 1273

London :
SAMPSON, LOW, MARSTON & CO.

Liverpool :
ADAM HOLDEN.

1879.

то

SAMUEL BEALEY, Esq.,

7, LINDEN GARDENS, BAYSWATER,

LONDON,

THIS “Book Of TEXTS"

18,

WITH HIS KIND PERMISSION,

DEDICATED,

BY

HIS FORMER TUTOR,

THE AUTHOR.

56, YORK TERRACE, EVERTON,

LIVERPOOL, DecemBER, 1878.

CONTENTS.

BOOK I. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER II. THE BIBLE.

CHAPTER III. THE BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
BOOK II. CHAPTER I. Chronological Table. Ancient History.

CHAPTER II. Ancient History: The End of the Pentateuch.
CHAPTER III. Ancient History: Joshua. The Seven Years' War. Death of Joshua.
CHAPTER IV. Ancient History: The JUDGES.
CHAPTER V. Ancient History: Eli; Samuel; Saul; David. The Death of Saul.
CHAPTER VI. Ancient History: The Song of the Bow. The Reign of David.

CHAPTER VII. Ancient History: The Reign of Solomon.
BOOK III. CHAPTER 1. Ancient History: The Division of the Kingdoms : 1. Israel ; 2. Judah.

I. The Kingdom of Israel.
CHAPTER II. II. The Kingdom of Judah and Benjamin.
CHAPTER III. 1. Review of Israel and Judah. 2. Assyria. 3. Babylon. 4. Daniel.

5. Ezekiel. 6. Jeremiah. 7. The Medo-Persian Empire.
CHAPTER IV. 1. The Book of Esther. 2. Bishop Marsh.
CHAPTER V. 1. Bishop Marsh. 2. The Invasion of Asia by Alexander the Great.

3. Alexander's Successors. CHAPTER VI. 1. The Apocrypha. 2. Simon the Maccabee. 3. The Successors of

Simon the Maccabee. 4. The Battle of Actium. 5. The Death of Mark Antony. 6. The Death of Cleopatra. 7. The End of

Ancient History BOOK IV. CHAPTER I. Modern History: 1. Octavius-Augustus, Emperor. 2. The Birth of the

MESSIAH. 3. The Roman Emperors, to the Abdication of

DIOCLETIAN.
CHAPTER II. 1. Constantius and Galerius. 2. Theodoric and Odoācer. 3. William