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BECKMANN'S HISTORY OF INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, AND ORIGINS. Fourth edition, carefully revised and enlarged by DRS. FRANCIS and GRIFFITH. With Memoir and Portrait. Vol. I.

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SCHILLER'S HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR AND REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS, translated by A. J. W. MORRISON. With a fine Portrait

of Schiller.

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BECKMANN'S HISTORY OF INVENTIONS, &c.
Volume. With Portrait of James Watt.

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Second and concluding

SCHILLER'S WORKS, Vol. II.,-containing: Continuation of THE REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS; WALLENSTEIN'S CAMP; THE PICCOLOMINI; THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN; and WILHELM TELL. With Portrait of Wallenstein.

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MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF COLONEL HUTCHINSON, by his WIDOW LUCY; to which is now first added, an ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF LATHOM HOUSE. With fine Portrait.

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MEMOIRS OF BENVENUTO CELLINI, written by himself. Now first collated with the New Text of GUISEPPE MOLINI, and enlarged. Translated by THOMAS ROSCOE. With fine Portrait.

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COXE'S HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA, from the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh, to the death of Leopold II., 1218-1792. New and revised edition, complete in Three Volumes. Vol. I. With fine Portrait of the Emperor Maximilian.

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LANZI'S HISTORY OF PAINTING, a revised translation by THOMAS ROSCOE, complete in Three Volumes. Vol. I. With fine Portrait of Raphael.

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OCKLEY'S HISTORY OF THE SARACENS, revised, enlarged, and completed, with a Life of Mohammed, and Memoir of the Author. Portrait of Mohammed.

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COXE'S HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA, Vol. II. With Portrait of the Emperor Rhodolph.

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LANZI'S HISTORY OF PAINTING, Vol. II. With fine Portrait of Titian.

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SCHILLER'S HISTORICAL DRAMAS, (forming the Third Volume of his Works,) containing: DON CARLOS, MARY STUART, MAID OF ORLEANS, and BRIDE OF MESSINA. With Portrait of the Maid of Orleans.

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LAMARTINE'S HISTORY OF THE GIRONDISTS, or Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution, from unpublished sources. Vol. I. With Portrait of Robespierre.

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COXE'S HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF AUSTRIA, Third and concluding Volume. With Portrait of the Empress Maria Theresa.

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LANZI'S HISTORY OF PAINTING. Vol. III., which completes the Work. With Portrait of Correggio.

The following are in progress :—

IECTURES ON PAINTING, by the Royal Academicians, with Portraits, and an Introductory Essay by an Eminent Writer on Art.

MACHIAVELLI'S HISTORY OF FLORENCE, and other Works.

SCHILLER'S WORKS, PROSE AND VERSE, including new and revised Translations.

GOETHE'S WORKS, PROSE AND VERSE, including his Autobiography, correctly translated, and a new Memoir.

SCHLEGEL'S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE, and PHILOSOPHY OF LANGuage. SCHLEGEL'S MISCELLANEOUS WORKS.

THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF JEAN PAUL RICHTER AND TIECK. NORTHERN ANTIQUITIES, including Mallet, Bishop Percy, Weber, &c., entirely revised.

COXE'S HISTORICAL WORKS: -1. Life of the Duke of Marlborough. 2. Bourbon Kings of Spain. 3. Memoirs of the Walpoles.

BURNEY'S HISTORY OF MUSIC, revised and enlarged, with additions from

Sir John Hawkins and others.

JUNIUS'S LETTERS, by WOODFALL, with additional Illustrations, and a Preliminary Essay.

MENZEL'S HISTORY OF GERMANY, translated by MRS. GEO. HORROCKS,

in Three Volumes.

SHERIDAN'S WORKS, with a new Memoir.

MEMOIRS OF SULLY, DE RETZ, PHILIP DE COMMINES.
RANKE'S LIVES OF THE POPES.

RANKE'S HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION.

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TESTIMONIA.

"Whoever wishes to see the English language in its perfection must read the writings of that great divine-Robert Hall. He combines the beauties of Johnson, Addison, and Burke, without their imperfections."-Dugald Stewart.

"I cannot do better than refer the academic reader to the immortal works of Robert Hall. For moral grandeur, for Christian truth and sublimity, we may doubt whether they have their match in the sacred oratory of any age or country." -Professor Sedgwick (in his Discours: on the Studies of the University).

"The Sermons and Discourses of Robert Hall are wonderful compositions; wonderful both for the scale and the variety of the powers they display; a head so metaphysical, seeming to have little in common with an imagination so glowing; declamation so impassioned, with wisdom so practical; touches of pathos so tender, with such caustic irony, such bold invective, such spirit-stirring encouragements to heroic deeds; and all conveyed in language worthy to be the vehicle of such diverse thoughts, precise or luxuriant, stern or playful-that most rare but most eloquent of all kinds of speech, the masculine mother-tongue of an able man, which education has chastened, but not killed; constructed after no model of which we are aware; more massive than Addison, more easy and unconstrained than Johnson, more sober than Burke.

"The bold diction, the majestic gait of the sentence, the vivid illustration, the rebuke which could scathe the offender, the burst of honest indignation at triumphant vice, the biting sarcasm, the fervid appeal to the heart, the sagacious development of principle, the broad field of moral vision-all these distinguish the compositions of Robert Hall, and we bear our most willing testimony to their worth."-Quarterly Review.

"In the eloquence of the pulpit, Robert Hall comes nearer Massillon than either Cicero or Eschines to Demosthenes."-Lord Brougham.

"Here is intellectual food for the scholar, the philosopher, the statesman, and the divine; and expressed in the surpassing language of Robert Hall. He who shall give these volumes a place on his table, will not fail of satisfaction, on whatever page his eye may chance to rest; and his mind is little to be envied, if from the perusal of them, he do not find himself a more accomplished, a wiser, and a better man."-Church of England Quarterly Review.

"I will give my general opinion of this divine in the words that were employed to describe a prelate, whose writings, I believe, are familiar to him, and whom he strongly resembles in fertility of imagination, in vigour of thinking, in rectitude of intention, and holiness of life. Yes, Mr. Hall, like Jeremy Taylor, has the eloquence of an orator, the fancy of a poet, the acuteness of a schoolman, the profoundness of a philosopher, and the piety of a saint." "”—Parr (Spital Sermon).

"The excellence of Mr. Hall does not consist in the predominance of one of his powers, but in the exquisite proportion and harmony of all. The richness, variety, and extent of his knowledge, are not less remarkable than his absolute mastery over it. His style is one of the clearest and simplest-the least encumbered with its own beauty-of any which ever has been written.”—London Magazine.

"His sermons are distinguished by solid and profound philosophy, and breathe a spirit of humility, piety, and charity, worthy of that pure and divine religion, to the defence of which the author has concentrated his talents. His eloquence is of the highest order, the natural effusion of a fertile imagination and of an ardent mind, while his style is easy, various, and animated. On a review of all his various excellencies, we cannot but expect with confidence that the name of Robert Hall will be placed by posterity among the best writers of the age, as well as the most vigorous defenders of religious truth, and the brightest examples of Christian charity."-Sir J, Mackintosh.

INDEX.

Abbott's Teacher, 37
Adams's Roman Antiquities, 30
Adams on St. Peter, 44
Aikin's Calendar of Nature, 37
Ainsworth's Latin Dictionary, 30

(W. H.) Tower of London, 90
Windsor Castle, 90
Alcuin, Life of, by Lorenz, 60
Alphabet of Quadrupeds, 37
Andrews' Heaths, 17
Angler's Souvenir, 1
Aphorisms and Reflections, 60
Aristophanes 'Plutus, 30

Plutus and the Frogs, 30
Birds, by Cary, 30
Aristotle's Rhetoric, 30
Armes et Armures, 1

Arthur O'Leary, by Lever, 92
Artis's Antediluvian Phytology, 17
Artist's Book of Fables, 1
Asmodeus, 90

Atlas, Wilkinson's General, 30
Classical, 30

Lizar's General, 60

Attributes of God, 44

Austria and the Austrians, 60
Bacon's Works, 60

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Bolton's British Song Birds, 17
Bonner, Life of, 52
Bonnycastle's Newfoundland, 61
Book of Gems, 1

Raphael Cartoons, 1
Shakespeare Gems, 1
Waverley Gems, 2
Table Talk, 61

the Court, 61

Booth's Analytical Dictionary, 61
Bostock's Physiology, 26

Boston's Crook in the Lot, 45
Boswell's Life of Johnson, 61
Bourrienne's Napoleon, 61
Bradley's Geometry, 29
Bradford's American Antiquities, 61
Brand's Popular Antiquities, 61
Bremer's (Miss) Novels by Howitt, 90
Diary, and Strife and Peace, 90
Home, 90

Neighbours, 90

Pres. Daughter, and Nina, 90
H-Family, Tralinnan, &c., 91
Britannia after the Romans, 61
British Florist, 17

Britton's Lincoln Cathedral, 2
Christ Church, 2

Brockedon's Italy, 2

Passes of the Alps, 2
Excursions in the Alps, 61
Brodie's British Commonwealth, 61
Brougham's Political Philosophy, 61
British Constitution, 61
Statesmen, 61

Men of Letters, 61

- Speeches, 61

Brown's British Butterflies, 37
Conchology, 17

Antiquities of the Jews, 44
Browne's Highland Clans, 62

(Sir T.) Works, 62
Buckingham's America, 62
Buffon's Natural History, 17
Bullinger on the Sacraments, 44
Bulwer's Pilgrims of the Rhine, 2
Pelham, 91
Disowned, 91
Devereux, 91

Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 44
Burke's Heraldic Illustrations, 2

Encyclopædia of Heraldry, 63
(Edmund) Works, 63
Burmeister's Entomology, 17
Burnet's Lives, 44
Burns' Works, 63

(Dr. John) Surgery, 26
Burroughs on Hosea, 44
Rare Jewel, 44

Burrow's Elgin Marbles, 2
Conchology, 17

Byron's Don Juan, 63

Cæsar, Oberlini, 30

Caleb Stukeley, 91

Campbell on the Miracles, 45

Campbell's Frederick the Great, 63
Life of Petrarch, 63

Cardinal de Retz, 91

Carleton's Valentine M'Clutchy, 91
Traits and Stories, 91

Carr's Manual of Roman Antiq. 30
Carter's Ancient Architecture, 2

- Sculpture, 2

-Gothic Architecture, 2

Cary's Testimonies of the Fathers, 45
Dante, 63

Pindar, 64

Early French Poets, 64

Lives of English Poets, 64

-Memorials of the Civil War, 64
Castle on Poisons, 26

Catlin's North American Indians, 2
Portfolio of American Indians, 3
Caulfield's Portraits, 3

Celsus ed Milligan, 26

Latin and English, 26
ed. A. Lee, 26

Chamberlaine's Royal Drawings, 3

Chambers' James Ist. 64

Chandler's Plain Reasons, 45

-Asia Minor, 64

Channing's Works, 64

Charlesworth's Mag. of Nat. Hist. 18

Charnock on the Attributes, 45

Chateaubriand's Eng. Literature, 64

Chatham Papers, 64

Chatterton's Works, 64

(Lady) Rambles in Ireland, 64
Chillingworth's Relig. of Protestants

45

Christian Souvenir, 3

Evidences, 45

Treasury, 45

Literature, 45

Chronological Tables, (Oxford) 30
Churches of Cambridgeshire, 3

Churton's Universal Amanuensis, 64

Cibber's Apology, 64

Cicero's Life and Letters, 31

Offices by Cockman, 31
Notæ Var. cura Oliveti, 31
Clarke's Travels, 65

Claude's Liber Veritatis, 3
Coesvelt's Picture Gallery, 3

Coghlan's Comp. to the Scriptures, 46
Colburn's Standard Novelists, 91

Coleman's Myth. of the Hindus, 65

Collection of English Sonnets, 65

Compendium of Christian Instruc. 46
Coombe Abbey, 91

Coney's Foreign Cathedrals, 3
Conolly on Insanity, 26
Cook's View of Christianity, 46
Cooke's Shipping and Craft, 3

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London and its Vicinity, 3
Thames Scenery, 3

Cookery, Jenning's Family, 65
-Ladies' Own Cookery Book, 65

Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, 44, 45 Cooper's American Navy, 65

Cooper, (Sir Astley) on Hernia, 26

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