American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette, Volume 4

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Book Publishers' Association, 1858
 

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Page 266 - A Dictionary of Practical Medicine : Comprising General Pathology, the Nature and Treatment of Diseases, Morbid Structures, and the Disorders especially...
Page 50 - Resolved, THAT the United States in Congress assembled highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken, as subservient to the interest of religion, as well as an instance of the progress of arts in this country...
Page 305 - Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes, and Guaranties of Notes and Checks on Banks and. Bankers, with Occasional Illustrations from the Commercial Law of the Nations of Continental Europe.
Page 170 - Three-and-twenty years have passed since I entered on my present relations with the public. They began when I was so young, that I find them to have existed for nearly a quarter of a century, Through all that time I have tried to be as faithful to the public as they have been to me.
Page 104 - A COMMENTARY ON THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. By Horatio B. Hackett, DD, Professor of Biblical Literature and Interpretation, in the Newton Theological Institution.
Page 272 - Hitherto this interesting volume has only been known to the public by extracts in various publications. So few copies of the original are known to exist, that the copy from which this reprint has been taken cost twenty-one guineas.
Page 272 - THE VISION AND CREED OF PIERS PLOUGHMAN. Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT ; a new edition, revised, with additions to the Notes and Glossary. 2 vols. 10s. " The Vision of
Page 206 - Piraeus ; and when he had made his way from the coast as far as Athens, he sat down by a bookseller's stall, being now about thirty years of age. And as he took up the second book of Xenophon's Memorabilia and began to read it, he was delighted with it, and asked where such men as were described in that book lived; and as Crates happened very seasonably to pass at the moment, the bookseller pointed him out, and said,
Page 207 - The design of this work is to give an account of the lives of the leaders in the most important revolutions which history records, from the age of Sesostris to that of Napoleon. Care has been taken to select those personages, concerning whom information is most required by the historical student.
Page 109 - Bernard Lintot. With what power and at how early an age true genius impresses ! I saw, even at this immature period, that no other writer could cast a javelin with half the force of Homer. The missiles went whizzing athwart his pages; and I could see the momentary gleam of the steel, ere it buried itself deep in brass and bull-hide.

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