The American Eclectic, Volume 1Absalom Peters, Selah Burr Treat, John Holmes Agnew W.R. Peters, 1841 |
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... present our only means of acquiring a comprehensive view of the literature of those languages is the laborious process of learning the languages themselves . But few comparatively have the leisure or the inclination for such labor . The ...
... present our only means of acquiring a comprehensive view of the literature of those languages is the laborious process of learning the languages themselves . But few comparatively have the leisure or the inclination for such labor . The ...
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... present a very inadequate view of the current literature of the British Empire . And even if the whole were available , the readers of foreign periodicals need not be told , that much of what they contain is light and trifling , prosing ...
... present a very inadequate view of the current literature of the British Empire . And even if the whole were available , the readers of foreign periodicals need not be told , that much of what they contain is light and trifling , prosing ...
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... present conducted , as well in Europe as in this country , presents the rich- est and most varied sources of instruction . It is this alone which compri- ses all the topics of knowledge . Here all books are reviewed and all discoveries ...
... present conducted , as well in Europe as in this country , presents the rich- est and most varied sources of instruction . It is this alone which compri- ses all the topics of knowledge . Here all books are reviewed and all discoveries ...
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... PRESENT It is our design , as early as shall be found practicable , in the successive Nos . of the Eclectic , to furnish brief sketches of the history and present state of periodical literature , in the several countries from which our ...
... PRESENT It is our design , as early as shall be found practicable , in the successive Nos . of the Eclectic , to furnish brief sketches of the history and present state of periodical literature , in the several countries from which our ...
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... present article . It is not to be presumed that journals and magazines , in some form , were wholly unknown to the ancients . But we have no account of their origin . The first review of books , which has been preserved , is the ...
... present article . It is not to be presumed that journals and magazines , in some form , were wholly unknown to the ancients . But we have no account of their origin . The first review of books , which has been preserved , is the ...
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