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Op January ISIS, will he pu-blislnal,
Vol. I. Part I. of the

.IrINCYCLOPiEDIN NIETROPOLrrANA, or
UNIVERSAL OICTIONARA' of KNOWLEDGE, on
an Original,Plan ; with appropriate and entirely New En-
grayin zs :--conprising the 'Two-fold Advantage of a Philo-
sophical arid' an Aipluthetical Artangemeot. it four 'prin-
cipal divisions (a portion of which will be given in every
part); viz.
I. 'I he SCIENCES, 2 vols. .
11. The MIXED arid APPLIED SCIENCES, 6 vols.
BIOGRAPHY,, elivono!ogically orrangrd, interspersed
with chaptrs of Natiooal and General History, B vols.
IV. An ALPHABETICAL, MISCELLANEOUS, and
SUPPLEMENTA`RY • Division, containing. a Gazetteer, or
complete Vocabulary of. Geography : and a Philosophical and
Etymological Lexicon of the English Language,: S vols. An
INDEX, one volume. Total Twenty•five volumes. See
Prospectus. •.• I •
CONDITIONS.
1. This Work will be published regularly
,in Parts, con-
taining about Fifty Sheets of Letter-Priss, on a fine Demo
'Paper, at least once every three months. Two Parts to make
a •Volume.'
2. The price of Parts, in hoards, will he One Guinea.:
• the work will be handsomely printed, awl the. Purchasers may
he assured not only of -the uniformity and punctuality of its
appearance, butittsO of its completion within the prescribed
limits, on the entirely new ground of its .digested Plan: to
which therefore particular a..tention is requested.
3. Each part will contain 1111 the average twelve engravings,
?end cute wilt he taken that the •plates and' the-correspondent
.lext are published as much as possible together. Authentic
portraits will accompany the hiographical part.
4. A few copies will lie printed Oil super-royal paper, with
proof Impressions of the plates., price Two Guineas in hoards.
The object proposed in the Plan of this Encyclovedia, is
.to unite, more perfectly than has hitherto been attempted, the
advantages of a Scientific Arrangement of knowledge, pith
the conveniences of an Alphabetical -Repertory. As a book
of constant Reference amongst all classes of the Community,
its daily usefulness; it is presumed, will be facilitated by the
certainty of finding all • thing.., in their right placeS, and,
berally,.. each thing at cure: while' for ow •purposes of
structiou, turd the connected pursuit of scientific knowledge,
the decided sirperfority of a Thillisophical division of the
sciences, must he ...bviiios to every reflecting mind.
The work, in-its first two thrisions will he timid to contain
every portion of hum au knowledge, and ever.y principle of hu-
man conduct, in is natirral position amongst first principles,
and in its connection with other sciences,—then in its appli-
cation to
.311 the purposes of life. The Bio!raphieal, or third
division of the work, pr.iposes to unite two original advaii-
tages--a Bitql;iphy of the eminenet. men of all countries, chro-
nologically iirranged ; awl the far larger portion of History,
the engaging.. form of . Biography. The Alphabetical and
Lexicographical Miscellany, which constitutes the fourth di-
vision, will contain every scientific term in its usual alpha.
iietleal position in other Eneyeropirdia., with a direct rtie-
- retire to its place in. this; a complete G.:re:leer, accompanied
with rot responding Mails arid Charts ; many particular and
local 1114.trations Of science that will admit of no other clas-
sification; 'and every ant hectic WOrd iu the Em.r,liTh Lan-
guage, Rupported by , An extensive verbal In-
dex, which will be.prepared front every sheet as it proceed,
will lie pnlitished .rue volume at the close of the work.
It is evident, that under such au arrangent. nt. the reader
will he able to find every thing prominent:in the Arts nod
Sciences at one reference, ViZ• under its own mune or class
in the !iiire or Mixed Sciences : but' iii. two references, vii.
another to the arolialietical division; it is hardly
,sible lie slionlil,he disappoint est in the object of his senith ;
while upon the plan of former Encyclopmilias, a Pur-
'cli4iser roust look through -from ten to'forty'artieles in each
• of the pure Sciences before he could finish Hoy one.
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