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LORD BACON"S WORKS.
=Price Reduced to $7 50.=
In 3 Royal 8vo. Volumes, Cloth Gilt.
=THE WORKS OF LORD BACON=, WITH A MEMOIR, AND A TRANSLATION OF HIS LATIN WRITINGS,
BY BASIL MONTAGU, ESQ.
In Three Volumes, Octavo.
The American edition of the works of Lord Bacon now offered to the public, is reprinted from the most approved English edition, that of Basil Montagu, Esq., which has recently issued from the celebrated press of Pickering, (the modern Aldus.) in seventeen octavo volumes. It contains the complete works of the ill.u.s.trious philosopher, _those in Latin being translated into English_. In order to render the publication cheap, and therefore attainable by all our public and social libraries, as well as by those general readers who study economy, the seventeen octavo volumes have been comprised in three volumes, imperial octavo.
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"We may safely affirm, that, by giving the Inductive Philosophy to the world, Lord Bacon has proved one of its most signal benefactors, and has largely done his part towards promoting the final triumph of all truth, whether natural, or moral and intellectual, over all error; and towards bringing on that glorious crisis, destined, we doubt not, one day to arrive, when, according to the allegorical representation of that great poet, who was not only the Admirer of Bacon, but in some respects his kindred genius--TRUTH, though "hewn like the mangled body of Osiris, into a thousand pieces, and scattered to the four winds, shall be gathered limb to limb, and moulded, with every joint and member, into an immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.""
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=WALTER SCOTT"S COMPLETE WORKS.=
_In 10 vols., Royal 8vo., Cloth gilt, for only $10!!_
Including the Waverly Novels, Poetical and Prose Works, with the Author"s latest Corrections.
_Also, Full-bound Library Style Price_ $12.50.
=Price Reduced to $2 50.=
THE WAVERLEY NOVELS.
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A NEW EDITION OF
=THE WAVERLEY NOVELS=,
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CONTENTS.
Waverley, Guy Mannering, Antiquary, Rob Roy, Black Dwarf, Old Mortality, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, Legend of Montrose, Ivanhoe, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, The Pirate, Fortunes of Nigel, Peveril of the Peak, Quentin Durward, St. Ronan"s Well, Redgauntlet, The Betrothed, The Talisman, Woodstock, The Highland Widow, Two Drovers, My Aunt Margaret"s Mirror, Tapestried Chamber, The Laird"s Jock, Fair Maid of Perth. Anne of Geierstein, Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous, The Surgeon"s Daughter.
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The publishers wish it to be distinctly understood, that, while the price is so greatly reduced the work is in no way abridged, but is CAREFULLY PRINTED FROM, AND CONTAINS EVERY WORD IN THE LAST EDINBURGH EDITION, in forty-eight volumes, which sells for seventy-two dollars.
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THE Prose Writers of America, WITH A SURVEY OF THE INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, CONDITION, AND PROSPECTS OF THE COUNTRY.
BY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD.
_FOURTH EDITION, REVISED._
_Ill.u.s.trated with Portraits from Original Pictures._
Complete in one volume octavo--$3 50.
CONTENTS.
Intellectual History, Condition, and Prospects of the Country--Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Dwight, Marshall, Hamilton, Ames, J. Q.
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A New and Cheap Edition OF THE HISTORY OF THE =FRENCH REVOLUTION=.
BY M. A. THIERS, LATE PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE.
_Translated from the French, with Notes and Additions._
The Four Volumes complete in Two.
=Price only $1 50.=
The edition of the History of the French Revolution now offered to the public is printed on VERY LARGE TYPE, on good paper, and contains upwards of
_Eighteen Hundred Large Octavo Pages_,