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Page 29 - In elegance, delicacy, and tact it ranks with the best of his novels, while in the wide range of its portraiture and the subtilty of its analysis it surpasses all his earlier ventures.
Page 9 - Gibbon. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By EDWARD GIBBON. A New Edition, Edited with Notes, Appendices, and Maps, by JB BURY, LL.D., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. In Seven Volumes. Demy Svo. Gilt top.
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Page 2 - Messrs. METHUEN are issuing a series of expositions upon most of the books of the Bible. The volumes will be practical and devotional, and the text of the authorised version is explained in sections, which will correspond as far as possible with the Church Lectionary. THE EPISTLE OF ST.
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Page 40 - The Cock, The Ship, The Parasite. The Lover of Falsehood). Translated by ST IRWIN, MA, Assistant Master at Clifton; late Scholar of Exeter College, Oxford, y.