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C ; i A great Poet, Playwright,
USCar Wilde! ovo11 .nnd Essayist.
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I Aloxandro Dumas is deolarod by
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I it is indeed true that though written
PlflTA I 2.300 veara .inn tho wnrkn nf Plato
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I ine History of English Literature, II-
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The writings of this classic old
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Plutarch!
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1J I Scott It was who named Fielding
rlftlfllflP "The Father of tho English
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r 4 9 rfc a Th0 Decline and Fall of
(iibbon s Koine" th Roman Emp,re
UlRMim O IWUIW. covering tho period
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fall of tho Republic, through thlrteon centurlos,
to thp fall of Constantinople. "Whatovor. else 13
road, Gibbon must bo read too." Now Edition de
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, stain; and their mono solid qualities aro marred
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Addison's Essays LIm, Ed. by de Lnxc
Edited by JOHN RICHARD GREEN, M. A., LL. D.
The Meditations of the Emperor
Translated by GEORGE LONG, M. A.
MARCUS AURELUS ANTONINUS
With a biographical Skotch and a view of tho
philosophy or Antoninus by tho translator.
BACON'S ESSAYS Counsels, Civil and Moral
Including nlso his Apophthegms. Elegant Son.
tonces, and Wisdom or tho Anclonts. with a Bio
graphical Introduction by Honry Morley.
CHESTERFIELD'S LETTERS
Inoludlng his Sentonoes and Maxims, with a pre
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by 0. A. Salnte-Bouv, d I'acadenHe Franoalse.
THE DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS
with the Encholridlon nnd Fragmonts, translated
with notes, a Hfo and a view of his philosophy,
by Georgo Long, M. A. '
The Autobiography of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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Saving Ono Hundred Thousand Pounds, Advico to
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LINCOLN'S SPEECHES
Including his Inaugurals and Proclamations
with a Biographical Introduction and Prefatory
Notes,
WEBSTER'S SPEECHES
Embracing Webster's acknowledged master
plocos In each department of oratory, Including
Tho Dartmouth College Case, Tho Plymouth Ora
tlon The Bunker Hill Monumont, Tho Character
of Washington. Reply to Hayne. Reply to Calhoun,
Tho Constitution of tho Union, otc, etc.