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Horse-taming - Horsemanship - Hunting: A New Illustrated Edition of J.S ...
1859 - 248 pages
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Stories of Waterloo, Volume 213

William Hamilton Maxwell - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1856 - 288 pages
...written that it cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant ; yet it is a book that may be read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished...instinct and a full knowledge of English History. I has nothing about it of common-place compilation. It is thework of a man of remarkable ability, havin...
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English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1856 - 200 pages
...written that it cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant ; yet it is a book that may be read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished...people — a poetical instinct and a full knowledge of Jinglish History. It has nothing about it of common-place compilation. It is the work of a man of remarkable...
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Johnson's Dictionary of the English language, for the use of schools. With a ...

Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 344 pages
...written that it cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant ; yet it is a hook that may be read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished scholar. In a word, excellent ;nfis are applied to the advantage of the people— a poetical instinct and a lull knowledge of Knglish...
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The Poacher

Frederick Marryat - Publishers' catalogs - 1856 - 470 pages
...written thai it cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant; yet it is a book that mav he read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished scholar. In a woni. excellent gifts are applied to the advantage of the people—a poetical instinct ami a full knowledge...
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English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1857 - 204 pages
...so written th*t i' cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant; yet it is a book that may \ read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished...excellent gifts are applied to the advantage of the people—a poetical instinct and a fuj knowledge of English History. It has nothing about it of common-place...
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India: Its History, Climate, Productions: With a Full Account of the Origin ...

Joachim Hayward Stocqueler - India - 1857 - 266 pages
...is a book that n>: v be read with pleasure and prulit, too, by the most polished scholar. In a wonl excellent gifts are applied to the advantage of the people — a poetical instinct anJ i full knowledge of Knglish History. I has nothing about it of common-place compilation. Itisthework...
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Sam Slick in England; or, The attaché, by the author of 'The clockmaker'.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - 1858 - 524 pages
...written that it cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant ; yet it is a book llmt may be read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished...full knowledge of English History. It has nothing aDout it oi' common-place compilation. It is the work of a man of remarkable ability, having as such...
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Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott: Two Lives

James White - Authors, Scottish - 1858 - 320 pages
...written that it cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant; yet it is a book that may be read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished...gifts are applied to the advantage of the people — a pjetieal instinct and a full knowledge of English History. It has nothing about it of common-place...
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Sporting Scenes Amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa

Alfred Wilks Drayson - Hunting - 1858 - 446 pages
...written that it cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant; yet it is a book that may be read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished...excellent gifts are applied to the advantage of the people—a poetical instinct and a full knowledge of English History. It has nothing about it of commonplace...
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Four and Twenty Fairy Tales: Selected from those of Perrault, and Other ...

Fairy tales - 1858 - 616 pages
...written that ,t cannot fail to amuse and enlighten the more ignorant ; yet it is & book that may be read with pleasure and profit, too, by the most polished scholar. In a word, exccllent (.> il', s are applied to the advantage of the people — a poetical instinct and a full...
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