The Sun.
London, England, 1806-06-18 00:00:00

A NEW CYCLOPPEDIA.

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• To te completed in Tweive _Months'.
_On Tuesday, July be published in-4to.- price-Nine
Shillings, PART V, (Mc Lour first Parts'having
al reiiti 1- ai% peAreil) i•f • •
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A NEW and COMIsiriNTIO LIS DICTIONARY
. , ur.ARTS HndSCI eN C ES, to be conipicted witlidi the
YLiar, by the publication of Out Part on the tat day of every
subs:quent Month, the witole making 'f'nelve Parts, at two
large and eieg,ant• 4t-o. Volunies wiih One IlundrLti and
Twenty Copper-plates. • •
-• • By G. GREGORY, D. D.
- Doetor in Philosophy mud the Arts, and itonorary/Member •
of tne. Imperial tiniversity. of Wilria, .leinber ot the Man-
i chester and New, astieinterary and Philo Ophical Societies,
Honorary Nlemberof toe Board of Agriculture, Chaplain to.
the'Bishup of I..iandatt, Attiiior of• Essays Historical and
Murat, the Economy of Nature, &C..
AWC rIONARY-of ARTS •and SCIENCES in a
compendipus sullitiently-copians.witnout being pro.
fix, accurate but not diffuse, .divested of ail superfluous
matter, copyressing rattier than copying witatlias been done
by others, and exhibiting .a clear but concise view of the
pres,nt state of the various branches. of Human .Know-
ledge, has long heek a _must :clestraoleobjett to the r.'nilish
Reader. •

. . A
Dtitionary is properly a work of reference,J and, not of
detail ; and tlioLt who vvislvto 'become adept-6 in any one Art
or Science will scar:ely stivly It from in Liieyelopwilia ex,
elusively.
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That a rein plete viv`rif the 'Arts ant Sciences-1113y how,
ever be ex hiniterron a smaller stale hall is usually attempt-
ed, will be obvii.us,: it • %.;e' consider that tne Cy, ‘,pititiaof.
Ciianiners was originally cornprbe‘i toi two Yoitimes
large and open printnig;: that the first Edition ot tne Ency-
clopedia lirttannica extended only to thtee•tton Volumes :Ito;
and teat many excellent Works ot a similar kind, and not of,
a greater extent, liave•ben.published in forelg , Countries.—,
The retrenchment alsb of Many' superfluous and usOess.Ar;
whiert lia,delatterly found their way tide. !looks °fails
description, will evidently cause a entitittizrablt
point ot size, ivitn;ut 111 reality impairing the intriiiiie value.
and general utility of the Wo k.

Shortlti, theretore; the execution-not
disappoint .the hopes
and eip-....ctations of those Aviio have projected the New i)je_
tionary of Arts and Sciences, the toliownig are the immediate
advantages which they trust they infay'witii reason anti modes-
ty promfse to its pur,Masers. ,• • •

ist. It %yid eichibit a-compendium of human knowledge,,
the enure luminous hecanse Lleared of all extralieoik
rather practical than speculative and in which particular at-
tention will Ix paid to,the most usetul branches: •ti
2(1, It will be of a conventelit and comparatively portable
size, calculated to lie on the table of every studious person,
'as a book of constant reference-'

Sit. I t. will be printed so as to correspond with the 4to Edi-
tion or Dr. johitson's Dictionary ; and the possessorgot bUtli
,W,orks will thus hive, in tour _pa Volitines, and at a mode_
rite expellee, ail tie litera), aid whist the Eriglisit student or
reader can poss; hi y- require. •
;fire Work will'be neatly peintett 'on a new And:tlcgantlir&-
vin Type, cast -expressly:tor till's purpose, on superfine yel-
low wove l'ap.fr. Cppper--plates will be. engtavell
ly troth original Drawings 1.)• the firstArtists,l/2and,will'elpial
'any ki.iebtverkiven to the...Public:in a Worli.,_qi,,tpis pattite
and- thole reterre4 to in each Part:wilt be. regularly done up
with the corresponding lEtter.press.
Yriittedstbr ltichoirt N'o.•6-, ltrido-"strzet,
friars ; and soldhyall Booksellers and Oca-ors- in BOoks„, to,
whomorals are requeteci to be giyrn aireatiy as possible,