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PORTRAITS AND BIOGRAPHIES

CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.

1. TAYLOR

2. Lavoisier

3. Sydenham

4. Clarendon

5. Reynolds

6. Swift

7. Locke

8. Selden

9. Paré

10. Blake

11. L'Hôpital

12. Mrs. Siddons

13. Herschel

14. Romilly

15. Shakspeare

16. Euler

17. Sir W. Jones

18. Rousseau

19. Harrison

20. Montaigne

21. Pope

22. Bolivar

23. Arkwright

24. Cowper