An institution of general history, or, The history of the world [electronic resource] : being a complete body thereof, from the beginning of the world till the monarchy of Constantine the Great : wherein are described the several empires, and the contemporaries with them, all distinctly and by themselves, and yet linked together by synchronisms : as also, the forms and models of governments, with the power and nature of their respective magistrates, customs, laws, and antiquities, all in such unbroken order and method as yet never was extant / by William Howel ..