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Page 27 - A Platform of Church Discipline gathered out of the word of God : and agreed upon by the Elders; and Messengers of the Churches assembled in the Synod at Cambridge in New England to be presented to the Churches and General!
Page 26 - THE CHURCHES QUARREL ESPOUSED : or, A Reply in Satyre, to certain Proposals made, in answer to this Question, What further Steps are to be taken, that the Councils may have due Constitution and Efficacy in Supporting, Preserving and Well-Ordering the Interest of the Churches in the Country.
Page 42 - I require that they shall all be dispersed under the hammer of the Auctioneer, so that the pleasure which the acquiring of each one of them has given me shall be given again, in each case, to some inheritor of my own tastes.
Page 27 - A LETTER addressed to the Abbe Raynal, on the affairs of North America : in which the mistakes in the Abbe's account of the revolution of America are corrected and cleared up.
Page 10 - An Answer to that Part of the Narrative of Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, K..B. which relates to the Conduct of Lieutenant-General Earl Cornwallis, during the Campaign in North-America in the Year 1781.
Page 11 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Page 42 - My wish is that my Drawings, my Prints, my Curiosities, my Books — in a word these things of art which have been the joy of my life — shall not be consigned to the cold tomb of a museum, and subjected to the stupid glance of the careless passer-by; but I require that they shall all be dispersed...
Page 11 - Notes and a View of the Causes of the Superiority of the Men of the Northern over those of the Southern Hemisphere.
Page 6 - Orations Delivered at the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town of Boston, to Commemorate the Evening of the Fifth of March, 1770; When a Number of Citizens were Killed by a Party of British Troops, Quartered Among them, in a Time of Peace.
Page 9 - Memorials of Columbus : or a Collection of Authentic Documents of that Celebrated Navigator, now first published from the Original Manuscripts, by Order of the Decurions of Genoa; preceded by a Memoir of his Life and Discoveries. Translated from the Spanish and Italian.
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| Title | The Choice Private Library of Edward Henry Kent |
| Author | Anderson Galleries, Inc.. |
| Publisher | Anderson Auction Company, 1906 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 29, 2006 |
| Length | 36 pages |
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