Biographical Guide to American Literature: A Classed List of Books Published in the United States of America During the Last Forty YearsTrübner and Company, 1859 - 554 pages |
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... biographical and bibliographical , not always , it is true , critically correct , yet sufficiently so as to render it the fullest storehouse to which the future literary historian of New Spain can resort for information . MDCCCXX ...
... biographical and bibliographical , not always , it is true , critically correct , yet sufficiently so as to render it the fullest storehouse to which the future literary historian of New Spain can resort for information . MDCCCXX ...
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... Biographical Memoir of Dr. Lude- wig , pp . xiii . , xiv .; and INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES , pp . xv.— xxiv . , followed by list of Contents . Then follow Dr. Ludewig's Bibliotheca Glottica , alphabetically arranged , with ...
... Biographical Memoir of Dr. Lude- wig , pp . xiii . , xiv .; and INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES , pp . xv.— xxiv . , followed by list of Contents . Then follow Dr. Ludewig's Bibliotheca Glottica , alphabetically arranged , with ...
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... biographical notices it contains . In the Catalogue of M. V. Salva , of 1826 , No. 1428 , Miscelanea de Papeles Manuscritos is described as containing a " memoir of the reports which were to be given for the description of South America ...
... biographical notices it contains . In the Catalogue of M. V. Salva , of 1826 , No. 1428 , Miscelanea de Papeles Manuscritos is described as containing a " memoir of the reports which were to be given for the description of South America ...
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... Biographical Sketches , which form the foundation of an American Biography , and evidently suggested Mr. Sparks ' more able and valuable work . It is worthy of note that to this period of American literature belongs a name known ...
... Biographical Sketches , which form the foundation of an American Biography , and evidently suggested Mr. Sparks ' more able and valuable work . It is worthy of note that to this period of American literature belongs a name known ...
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... Biographical Dictionary , says , he " threw more light on the true character of gout , dropsy , and consumption of the lungs , than is to be derived from the investigations of any other author . " He also wrote a valuable work on the ...
... Biographical Dictionary , says , he " threw more light on the true character of gout , dropsy , and consumption of the lungs , than is to be derived from the investigations of any other author . " He also wrote a valuable work on the ...
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