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D. Appleton, 1864 - 762 pages

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since
523
Rob Roy By the Author of Waverley Guy Mannering and The Antiquary
535
The Provost By the Author of Annals of the Parish Ayrshire Legatees c
548
GENERAL POLITICS
564
A Song of Triumph By W SOTHEBY
577
Speech of the Right Hon William Windham in the House of Commons May 26 1809
594
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan By THOMAS
616
An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain respecting the United States of America PAGE
621
Bracebridge Hall or the Humourists By GEOFFREY CRAYON Gent Author of The
637
A Portraiture of Quakerism as taken from a View of the Moral Education Discipline
643
Memoirs of the Private and Public Life of William Penn By THOMAS CLARKSON M A
651
A Selection from the Public and Private Correspondence of ViceAdmiral Lord Colling
659
Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay
666
Sketches of India Written by an Officer for FireSide Travellers at Home
674
Letters from a late eminent Prelate to one of his Friends
683
Memoirs of the Political and Private Life of James Caulfield Earl of Charlemont Knight
693
An Inquiry whether Crime and Misery are produced or prevented by our present Sys
700
written by Himself Containing an Account of
707
The Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Curran late Master of the Rolls in Ire
717
Switzerland or a Journal of a Tour and Residence in that Country in the Years 1817
725
Rejected Addresses or the New Theatrum Poetarum
732
Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh Edited by his Son
742
Notice of the Honourable Henry Erskine
756

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