BEING SELECTIONS FROM THE PROSE WORKS OF EMINENT
WRITERS FROM THE TIME OF PERICLES TO

THE PRESENT DAY.

PH. Mell

WITH INDEXES.

"

By S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

AUTHOR OF A CRITICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AND BRITISH AND
AMERICAN AUTHORS," " "POETICAL QUOTATIONS FROM CHAUCER TO TENNYSON,"
" PROSE QUOTATIONS FROM SOCRATES TO MACAULAY," ETC.

PHILADELPHIA:

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
LONDON: 10 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1887.

GENERAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

ATHENS GEORGIA

PN6014
4436

Copyright, 1879, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co.

TILH 11-3585-24

TO

ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY,

OF NEW YORK,

AS A TOKEN OF PROFOUND RESPECT FOR HIS CHARACTER AS A CHRISTIAN, A PHILANTHROPIST, AND A SCHOLAR,

I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME.

NEW YORK, October 11, 1879.

S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE.

GENERAL LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

ATMENS GROGGIA

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