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The Persian Adventurer: Being the Sequel of "The Kuzzilbash" - Page 3
by James Baillie Fraser - 1831
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 13

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 614 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, &c. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have read is terse and perspicuous; and it in really curious how HO much scientific and other information could have been so satisfactorily conimunicated...
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The Armenians: A Tale of Constantinople, Volume 1

Charles MacFarlane - Armenians - 1830 - 314 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, Ace. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have...been so satisfactorily communicated in such brief limits.—JV. Y. Evening p&t. A compendious library, and invaluable book of reference.—JV. Y. American...
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Geographia Classica, Or, The Application of Antient Geography to the Classics

Samuel Butler - Classical geography - 1831 - 292 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, &.C. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have...communicated in such brief limits."— JV. Y. Evening Post. " Those who can, by any honest modes of economy, reserve the sum of two dollars and fifty cents...
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The Journal of a Naturalist

John Leonard Knapp - Animals - 1831 - 330 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, &c. which has. yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have...; and it is really curious how so much scientific am! other information could have been so satisfactorily communicated in such brief limits.— JV. Y....
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A Discourse on the Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe, and the Changes ...

Georges baron Cuvier - Geology - 1831 - 322 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the art?, sciences, history, politics, biography, &c. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have...and perspicuous ; and it is really curious how so mticn scientific and other information could hnvc been so satisfactorily communicated in such brief...
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History of the Northmen, Or Danes and Normans: From the Earliest Times to ...

Henry Wheaton - Danes - 1831 - 432 pages
...the, moGt compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, &c. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have read is terse and perspicuous; and il is really curious how so much scientific and other in forma ion could have been so satisfactorily...
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An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, Theoretical and Practical: With Attempts ...

John Radford Young - Algebra - 1832 - 408 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, &c. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have...communicated in such brief limits." — JV*. Y. Evening Post. "Those who can, by any bonest modes of economy, reserve the sum of two dollars and fifty cents...
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Ivan Vejeeghen: Or, Life in Russia

Faddeĭ Bulgarin - Russia - 1832 - 250 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, &.C. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have...communicated in such brief limits." — JV". Y. Evening Post. " A compendious library, and invaluable book of reference.1'— JV. Y. American. "Those who can,...
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A Practical Treatise on Rail-roads: And Interior Communication in General ...

Nicholas Wood - Railroads - 1832 - 664 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, politics, biography, ice. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have...communicated in such brief limits." — JV. Y. Evening Post. "Those who can, by any honest modes of economy, reserve the sum of two dollars and fifty cents...
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History of Spain and Portugal, Volume 2

Samuel Astley Dunham - Portugal - 1832 - 338 pages
...the most compendious dictionary of the arts, sciences, history, polities, biography, &c. which has yet been compiled. The style of the portion we have...satisfactorily communicated in such brief limits." —JV. F. Evening Post. " A compendious library, and invaluable book of reference." — A'. F. American. "Those...
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