Elements of general knowledge: introductory to useful books in the principal branches of literature and science. With lists of the most approved authors; including the best editions of the classics, designed chiefly for the junior students in the universities, and the higher classes in schools. By Henry Kett, ... In two volumesMessrs. Rivington, St. Paul's Church Yard; Hatchard, Piccadilly; and Egerton, Whitehall; Hanwell and Parker, and J. Cooke, Oxford; and Deighton, Cambridge, 1803 |
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... EDITION . London : PRINTED FOR MESSRS . RIVINGTON , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD ; HATCHARD , PICCADILLY ; AND EGERTON , WHITEHALL ; HANWELL AND PARKER , AND J. COOKE , OXFORD ; AND DEIGHTON , CAMBRIDGE ; By Bye and Law , St. John's Square ...
... EDITION . London : PRINTED FOR MESSRS . RIVINGTON , ST . PAUL'S CHURCH YARD ; HATCHARD , PICCADILLY ; AND EGERTON , WHITEHALL ; HANWELL AND PARKER , AND J. COOKE , OXFORD ; AND DEIGHTON , CAMBRIDGE ; By Bye and Law , St. John's Square ...
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... edition of the Book of Common Prayer , 8vo . The introduction is in- ftructive and useful . - 111 . Novum Teftamentum Græcum , 8vo . Oxon . -IV . Clarke's and Pyle's Paraphrafes , 4 vol . 8vo . 1795.- v . Dodwell's Devotions , 8vo ...
... edition of the Book of Common Prayer , 8vo . The introduction is in- ftructive and useful . - 111 . Novum Teftamentum Græcum , 8vo . Oxon . -IV . Clarke's and Pyle's Paraphrafes , 4 vol . 8vo . 1795.- v . Dodwell's Devotions , 8vo ...
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... edition . The most complete Grammar of our Language . - 11 . Elements of Or- thoepy , by R. Nares , 8vo . - 111 . Johnson's English Dictionary , 2 vol . 4to.-IV. ETea leporta , or the Diverfions of Purley , by H. Tooke , ift edition ...
... edition . The most complete Grammar of our Language . - 11 . Elements of Or- thoepy , by R. Nares , 8vo . - 111 . Johnson's English Dictionary , 2 vol . 4to.-IV. ETea leporta , or the Diverfions of Purley , by H. Tooke , ift edition ...
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... edition of this work , with the quantities . of the fyllables accurately marked , is a great defideratum . - 111 . Conftantini Medici Cadomenfis Dictionarium Linguæ Græcæ , cum Additionibus F. Porti aliorumque , Genev . 1592. The beft ...
... edition of this work , with the quantities . of the fyllables accurately marked , is a great defideratum . - 111 . Conftantini Medici Cadomenfis Dictionarium Linguæ Græcæ , cum Additionibus F. Porti aliorumque , Genev . 1592. The beft ...
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... edition is now publishing by Harles . Seven volumes have appeared fince 1790 . See the useful Lift of Books annexed to the Collectanea Majora of the learned Profeffor Dalzel , of Edinburgh . ELOQUENCE . Vol . 1. p . 191 . 1. Initia ...
... edition is now publishing by Harles . Seven volumes have appeared fince 1790 . See the useful Lift of Books annexed to the Collectanea Majora of the learned Profeffor Dalzel , of Edinburgh . ELOQUENCE . Vol . 1. p . 191 . 1. Initia ...
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