The Book Buyer: A Monthly Review of American and Foreign Literature, Volumes 7-8C. Scribner and Company, 1873 |
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... English works . Their stock , which is by far the largest , the most varied and select in this country , comprises the most important works in every department of literature , as well as an extensive selection of the rarest and most ...
... English works . Their stock , which is by far the largest , the most varied and select in this country , comprises the most important works in every department of literature , as well as an extensive selection of the rarest and most ...
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... English History of this famous Community , the Jansenist Controversy , etc. PORTER ( W. ) . HISTORY OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA ; OR , THE ORDER OF THE HOS- PITAL OF ST . JOHN OF JERUSALEM . Two $ 6.00 vols . 8vo [ 1858 ] , half calf extra ...
... English History of this famous Community , the Jansenist Controversy , etc. PORTER ( W. ) . HISTORY OF THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA ; OR , THE ORDER OF THE HOS- PITAL OF ST . JOHN OF JERUSALEM . Two $ 6.00 vols . 8vo [ 1858 ] , half calf extra ...
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... English . Glimpses into the Inner Life of our Language . 372 pages , price $ 2.50 . Craik's English Literature . A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language , from the Norman Conquest . Vol . 1- 20 pages ...
... English . Glimpses into the Inner Life of our Language . 372 pages , price $ 2.50 . Craik's English Literature . A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language , from the Norman Conquest . Vol . 1- 20 pages ...
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... English works . Their stock , which is by far the largest , the most varied and select in this country , comprises the most important works in every department of literature , as well as an extensive selection of the rarest and most ...
... English works . Their stock , which is by far the largest , the most varied and select in this country , comprises the most important works in every department of literature , as well as an extensive selection of the rarest and most ...
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... ENGLISH HISTORY , WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTICES . Folio , cloth , gilt edges [ 1869 ] .. 10.50 Or , in half morocco , gilt edges .. Or , in tree calf , gilt edges ..... 10 00 15 00 18 00 FARRAR ( F. W. ) . ENGLISH MATRONS AND ...
... ENGLISH HISTORY , WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTICES . Folio , cloth , gilt edges [ 1869 ] .. 10.50 Or , in half morocco , gilt edges .. Or , in tree calf , gilt edges ..... 10 00 15 00 18 00 FARRAR ( F. W. ) . ENGLISH MATRONS AND ...
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Page 322 - Is one of those works which demand from critics and from the public, before attempting to estimate its merits in detail, an unqualified tribute of admiration. The first glance tells us that the book is one on which the leisure of a busy lifetime and the whole resources of an enthusiastic author have been lavished without stint .... This work is a kind of British Museum for this period and subject In small compass.
Page 121 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
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Page 314 - The BEGINNING of the MIDDLE AGES; CHARLES the GREAT and ALFRED; the HISTORY of ENGLAND in its connection with that of EUROPE in the NINTH CENTURY. By the Very Rev. RW CHURCH, MA The AGE of ANNE.
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Page 180 - ... salient incidents and features of each epoch. Special attention will be paid to the literature, manners, state of knowledge, and all those characteristics which exhibit the life of a people as well as the policy of their rulers during any period. To make the text more readily intelligible, outline maps will be given with each volume, and where this arrangement is desirable they will be distributed throughout the text so as to be more easy of reference. A series of works based upon this general...