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Gold-making an art not desire-Public opinion, 58.

able, 242.
Happiness, 109.
Hope, 114.

Hatred, a cause of it, 127.
Health, why not envied, 232.
Human ignorance, 281.
Idleness, 49.

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Men in masses, 126.

Men, who most proper, 128.
Man a dogmatizing animal, 163.
Mal-government, 184.
Metaphysicians, 212.
Morality, 235.

Lawyer, good excuse for a roguish Style, 34.

Nobility, 272.

Opinions of the learned, 48.
Observation of Paschals, 61.
Oratory, 167.

Priest and Physician, 79.

Philosophers, when fools, choice ones,

115.

Pleasures, 151.

Philosophy a Bully, 251.

Question, a consolatory one, 28.
Questions,some staggering ones, 201.
Retrenchment, 32.

Prudery, 40.

Paradox scriptural, 44.
Pride, 50.

Revenge, 67.

Revenge conquers self-love, 74.
Rich, a privilege they have, 85
Regret, a vain one, 102.
Religion, 141.

Risk when necessary, 142.
Riches seldom got by fools, 174.
Refinement, 180.
Ridicule, 189.
Religionists, 204.
Revolutions, 276.
Saints, 18.

Speeches, written, 22.

Self-knowledge, 54.

Seduction, 73.
Statesmen, 159.
Systems, 160.

Society, 162.

Slander, 172.

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Threats, 220.

Magnanimity, 274.
Nonsense puffed, 51.
Necessary things, 116.
Nobility, 120.

Unity of opinion, 121.
Vanity differs from Pride, 66.

Nations free only when they deserve Vanity a consolatory thing, 82.
it, 178.

Voice of the People, 265.

Works of merit not popular, when, T.
Women, what they never pardon, 23.
Wealth and Talent, 46.
Women Eastern, 96.
Wit, 145.

Timotheus when he demanded a

double fee, 132.

Time assists Poets, 176.

Originality, 243.

Posterity, what has it done for Wealth, 152.

us? 12.
Pedantry, 29.

Writing, 214.
Wits, 218.
Words, 250.

Philosophy and Poetry, 31.

Wishes granted to our own destruo
tion, 243.

War and Warriors, 283.

FINIS.

LONDON:

Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,
New-Street-Square.

A Catalogue of New Works and New Editions,
printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and
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28

M'Culloch's Dictionary of Com-
merce and Commer. Navigation - 20
Steel's Shipmaster's Assistant
GEOGRAPHY & ATLASES.
Butler's Sketch of Ancient and
Modern Geography
Atlas of Modern Geography ib.
66 Ancient do. -
Hall's New General Atlas
M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary 20
Malte-Brun's Geography
Murray's Encyclop. of Geography - 22

5

6
10

18

HISTORY & CRITICISM.
Adair's (Sir R.) Memoir of a Mis-
sion to Vienna

Addison's History of the Knights

16

46
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Templars
Bell's History of Russia
Bloomfield's Translation of Thu-
cydides

Cooley's History of Maritime and
Inland Discovery
Crowe's History of France
Dunham's History of Spain and
Portugal

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History of Europe dur-
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History of the German
Empire

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History of Denmark,
Sweden, and Norway ib.
History of Poland
Fergus's History of United States
of America -

ib.

8

Grant's (Mrs.) Memoir and Corre-
spondence -

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ib.
10

Grattan's History of Netherlands -
Halsted's Life of Richard III.
Jeffrey's (Francis) Contributions to
The Edinburgh Review
Keightley's Outlines of History

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History of England
Elementary do. -
History of Greece
Elementary do..
History of Rome
Elementary do. -
Hist.of Roman Empire
Questions on the above
Histories, separate
Laing's Kings of Norway,
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Mackintosh's Miscellaneous Works ib.
M'Culloch's Dictionary, Historical,
Geographical, and Statistical
Mackintosh's History of England -
Maunder's Treasury of History
Moore's History of Ireland
Rome, History of

ib.

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28

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29

29

History of Reformation ib.
21 Switzerland, History of -
Sydney Smith's Works
Thirlwall's History of Greece
Turner's History of England
JUVENILE BOOKS,

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INCLUDING MRS. MARCET'S WORKS.
Boy's own Book (The) -
Howitt's (Mary) Child's Picture
and Verse Book

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Colonisation and Chris-
tianity -
Humphrey's Illuminated Books
Jeffrey's (Francis) Contributions to

The Edinburgh Review
Letters on American Debts
Life of a Travelling Physician
Loudon's (Mrs.) Lady's Country
Companion

Macaulay's Critical and Historical
Essays -

Mackintosh's Miscellaneous Works ib.
Morgan On Assurances, Annuities,
and Reversions -

ib.

Peter Plymley's Letters -

Sandby On Mesmerism -

Reptiles

ib.
ib.

ib.

ib.

21

Insects

20

24

Seaward's Narrative of Shipwreck
Smith's (Rev. Sydney) Works
Taylor's Statesman
Walker's Chess Studies

Walton's Amateur's Drawing-Book 31
Willoughby's (Lady) Diary

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24

25

NATURAL HISTORY.

Catlow's Popular Conchology
Gray's Figures of Molluscous Animals 9
and Mitchell's Ornithology - ib.
Kirby and Spence's Entomology
Lee's Taxidermy

46

46 Elements of Natural History ib.
Stephens's British Coleoptera
Swainson On the Study of Natural

History

Animals -

Quadrupeds

Birds

Animals in Menageries

Fish, Amphibians, and

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Blaine's Encyclopædia of Rural
Sports -

Brande's Dictionary of Science,
Literature, and Art

Copland's Dictionary of Medicine -
Gwilt's Encyclopædia of Architec-

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Malacology

Habits and Instincts of

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Johnson's Farmer's Encyclopædia- 14
Loudon's Encyclopædias-

Trees and Shrubs

Gardening

16
ib.
- 17
ib.

Agriculture
Plants

60

M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary 20
Dictionary of Commerce ib.
Murray's Encyclopedia of Geogra-
phy

Savage's Dictionary of Printing
Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufac-
tures, and Mines -
Webster and Parkes's Domectio
Economy

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Turton's Shells of the British Islands 31
Waterton's Essays on Natural Hist. ib.
Westwood's Classification of Insects 32
NOVELS AND WORKS OF

FICTION.

18 RELICIOUS & MORALWORKS.
Amy Herbert -
Bellamy's Bible

Bloomfield's Greek Testament

POLITICAL ECONOMY
AND STATISTICS.
M'Culloch's Geographical, Statisti-
cal, and Historical Dictionary
Political Economy
Smith's Wealth of Nations
Spackman's Statistical Tables
Tooke's History of Prices

46

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"Diary, &c. -

"Tralinnan: Axel and Anna,
the H-- Family
Marryat's Masterman Ready-
Travels of Mons. Violet -
Rambles of the Emperor Ching Tih
Trollope's (Mrs.) The Laurringtons 30

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Tate's History of St. Paul

Tayler's Dora Melder

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21
ib.

Fossils of

Pearson's Practical Astronomy
Lalla Rookh, medium 8vo. ib. Phillips's Paleozoic
Cornwall, &c.
fcp. 8vo.
Guide to Geology
Treatise on Geology

"

ib.
ib.
- ib

27

26

27

29

" Margaret; or, the Pearl
" Sermons

Turner's Sacred History -
Wardlaw's Sermons

66

3

4
ib.

College and School do. ib.
Greek & English Lexi-
con to New Testament

Brande's Dictionary of Science,
Literature, and Art
Brewster's Optics
Conversations on Mineralogy
De la Beche On the Geology of
Cornwall, &c.
Donovan's Chemistry
Farey On the Steam Engine
Fosbroke On the Arts, Manners,
Manufactures, and Institutions
of the Greeks and Romans -
Greener's Science of Gunnery
On the Gun
Herschel's Natural Philosophy
Astronomy

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Holland's Manufactures in Metal -
Hunt's Researches on Light -
Kane's Elements of Chemistry
Kater and Lardner's Mechanics
Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopedia
Hydrostatics and I'neu-
matics-

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30

66 On Woman

Spalding's Philosophy of Christian
Morals -

20
21

Burder's Oriental Customs
Burns's Christian Philosophy
Fragments

Callcott's Scripture Herbal
Dibdin's Sunday Library
Doddridge's Family Expositor
Englishman's Heb.&Chald.Concord.
Ford's New Devout Communicant
"6 Century of Prayers
Kippis's Collection of Hymns, &c.
Marriage Gift -

Parkes's Domestic Duties
Pearson's Prayers for Families
Riddle's Letters from a Godfather - 24
Robinson's Greek&English Lexicon

On Socinian Controversy
RURAL SPORTS.

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Lectures on Polarised Light
Lerebours' Photography by Egerton
Lloyd On Light and Vision

Low's Simple Bodies of Chemistry 15
Mackenzie's Physiology of Vision -
Marcet's (Mrs.) Conversations on
the Sciences, &c.

of Londonderry
Powell's Natural Philosophy -
Richardson's Geology

and Walker's Electricity
Arithmetic
Geometry

Treatise on Heat -

Moseley's Practical Mechanics

64

Engineering & Architecture 21
Owen's Lectures on Comp. Anatomy
Parnell On Roads -

Blaine's Dictionary of Sports
Hansard's Fishing in Wales -

7

12 Hawker's Instructions to Sportsmen ib.
Ronalds's Fly-fisher's Entomology

ib.

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Thacker's Courser's Remembrancer 29

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Poisson's Mechanics

Portlock's Report on the Geology

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Sandhurst's Mathematical Course
Seoresby's Magnetical Investigations 26
Scott's Arithmetic and Algebra
Wilkinson's Engines of War -
Wood On Railroads

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Guide to ditto
Black's Tourist of England
Britton's Picture of London

TRAVELS.

Allan's Mediterranean

to the New Testament ib. China, Last Year in,
Sandford's English Female Worthies 25 Chorley's Music and Manners in

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Female Improvement

France and Germany -

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TOPOGRAPHY AND
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Addison's History of the Temple
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TRANSACTIONS OF
SOCIETIES.
Transactions of the Entomological
Society

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ib.

Zoological Society ib.
Linnacan Society
Institution of Civil
Engineers
Royal Institute of
British Architects ib.

ib.

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De Custine's Russia
Harris's Highlands of Ethiopia
Howitt's Wanderings of a Journey-
man Taylor-

Laing's Notes of a Traveller

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15
ib.
ib.
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29

VETERINARY MEDICINE
AND AFFAIRS.

Field's Veterinary Records
Morton's Veterinary Medicine

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Toxicological Chart ib.
Percivall's Hippopathology
Anatomy of the Horse -
Spooner On the Foot and Leg of

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Turner On the Foot of the Horse
White's Veterinary Art -
Cattle Medicine

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CATALOGUE.

ADAIR (SIR ROBERT).-AN HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF A

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