The rest of this history (if God give me life and opportunity) I shall, for brevity's sake, handle by way of annals, noting only the heads of principal things, and passages as they fell in order of time, and may seem to be profitable to know or to make use of. And this may be as the Second Book. Annals: a record of events of a particular year. 13. What is the purpose of the paragraph above? (Consider the text format being used.)