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... America , who are desirous of adorning themselves and their houses with choice English Books . By interleaving and ticking off , it will answer not only as a Catalogue of one's books , but in part as a list of one's desi- derata ...
... America , who are desirous of adorning themselves and their houses with choice English Books . By interleaving and ticking off , it will answer not only as a Catalogue of one's books , but in part as a list of one's desi- derata ...
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... America , the prices are by no means fixed ; the discount varying , according to circumstances , from twenty - five to seventy - five per cent . from the published prices , as indicated in the London Catalogue , and Lowe's British ...
... America , the prices are by no means fixed ; the discount varying , according to circumstances , from twenty - five to seventy - five per cent . from the published prices , as indicated in the London Catalogue , and Lowe's British ...
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... America . The import duty into the United States upon all classes , old or new , of " printed books , magazines , pamphlets , periodicals , and illustrated newspapers , bound or unbound , not otherwise provided for , " is ten per cent ...
... America . The import duty into the United States upon all classes , old or new , of " printed books , magazines , pamphlets , periodicals , and illustrated newspapers , bound or unbound , not otherwise provided for , " is ten per cent ...
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... America . Translated by Mary Howitt . 3 vols . A Hall and Virtue , 1853 , post 8vo . BREMER ( F. ) . See Bohn's Standard Library . BREWSTER ( Sir David ) . Martyrs of Science , Lives of Galileo , Tycho Brahe , and Kepler , second edit ...
... America . Translated by Mary Howitt . 3 vols . A Hall and Virtue , 1853 , post 8vo . BREMER ( F. ) . See Bohn's Standard Library . BREWSTER ( Sir David ) . Martyrs of Science , Lives of Galileo , Tycho Brahe , and Kepler , second edit ...
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... America ; Letters to Pery , Burgh , and Merlott ; Letters , with Reflections , on the Executions of the Rioters in 1780 ; Letter to Dundas , with the Sketch of a Negro Code ; Letter on the Duration of Parliaments . VI . Tracts relative ...
... America ; Letters to Pery , Burgh , and Merlott ; Letters , with Reflections , on the Executions of the Rioters in 1780 ; Letter to Dundas , with the Sketch of a Negro Code ; Letter on the Duration of Parliaments . VI . Tracts relative ...
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Page 2 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 31 - Costume in England. A HISTORY OF DRESS, from the Earliest Period until the close of the Eighteenth Century ; with a Glossary of Terms for all Articles of Use or Ornament worn about the Person. "By FW FAIRHOLT, FSA With upwards of 600 Engravings, drawn on Wood by the Author.
Page 21 - THE LIFE AND EPISTLES OF ST. PAUL; Comprising a complete Biography of the Apostle, and a Paraphrastic Translation of his Epistles Inserted In Chronological order. Edited by the Rev. WJ Conyheare, MA late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ; and the Rev. JS Howson, MA late Principal of the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool.
Page 57 - M'Culloch's Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Illustrated with Maps and Plans.
Page 21 - The Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece, from the earliest Accounts to the death of Augustus.
Page 23 - History of the House of Austria. From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 46 - Dictionary of Geography, Descriptive, Physical, Statistical, and Historical : Forming a complete General Gazetteer of the World.
Page 32 - Essays : On Decision of Character ; on a Man's writing Memoirs of Himself ; on the epithet Romantic ; on one aversion of Men of Taste to Evangelical Religion.
Page 84 - AN INTRODUCTION TO VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY, WITH REFERENCES TO THE WORKS OF DE CANDOLLE, LINDLEY, ic. 10.— ON THE PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL LAW.
Page 57 - M'CULLOCH. -A TREATISE ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICAL INFLUENCE of TAXATION and the FUNDING SYSTEM.