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BURKE.

" The Poets at large, like the Statutes at large, are proverbial
for the quantity of worthless lumber which they contain, and
have long been a heavy tax on the purse and patience of the Pub-
Printed for RICHARD PHILLIPS, No. 6, Bridge-street, Black-
friars, 'and to be had of all Booksellers.
N. B. To afford an adequate idea of the singular worth of the
above-mentioned Work, it will be necessary simply to enumerate
the names of the Poets, the best of whose Works, unaltered and
unabridged, occupy its pages.
VOL 1. Milton.

VOL 11.
Cowley, Rochester, Halifax, Hughes,
Waller, Pomfret, Parnell, Buckingham,
Butler, Phillips, Garth, Fenteu,
Denham, King, Rowe, Yalden,
Dryden, . Spratt, Addison, Gay.
VOL. 111.
Prior, Somerville, Savage, Swift,
Pope, Pattisonammo HUI, Falconer,
TickeU, Hammond, Broome, Watts, Blair.
VOL IV.
Thomson, A. Phillips, Collins, .Akenside,
Mallet, Hamilton,
VOL Dyer, Young.
V.
Gray, Cbut chill,
Smollet,r, Grainge, I:ungtorne,
R. est, Lloyd, Bruce,
Lyttl W
eton, Cunningham, Armstrong, Chatterton, .
}Moore, Green, Brown, Shaw,
W:l'hompson, Cooper, Dodsley, • Lovibond,
Cawthorn, Ooldsmith,
VI. Smart, . Penrose.
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' •Mickle, Whitehead, Logan,
USO; Jenyns, Warton,
Scott, Chyme, Cotton,
Johnson, Glover,. BLvkloris

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THOMAS B. RAMSTON Chairman. GENERAL BIOGRAPHY.
NG, LIGHTiNG, and CLEANSING. . This day was published, . .
Parish of St. Cienieot Danes, April 'AIM. Anew Edition, being TBS. THIRD, with considerable Additions
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ye
no for ILJGHTING end CLEANSING the one very large and closely printed volume, tte tee°, iinrdaci .
ye notice, That they will meet in the Veitty.room I'HE BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, an ,
ish, on Friday, the 13th day of ay next, at si A- CHRONOLOGICAL DICTIONARY, containing ac.
the afternoon precisely, to receiv piroposals in wri curate accounts of the Elves, Cowan CTERS, and ACTION sof the t
, from any person or persons e. illmg to contract most .:minent Persons of all Ages and Countries, including the
• Paving and Repairing the Pavement in the said Revolutions of States, and the Successions of sovereitts'Princes. ;'
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1 9-inch Granite or Pebbles. The tenders must spe-
A Biographical and Historical Library, in the form of a Dies
of each per square yard, as also the price for re- .
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sissioners will not suffer the Paving to be laid in any History,
challenges the respect of every Student, and every Lover II
a than Gravel, nor any Brick, Rubbish, Mortar, or
of Literature.
Aerial to be used with tha Gravel. This Dictionary consists of 1000 closely printed pages, each
rs for Repairing or Paving the Foot-way must spa- containing 600 words, and consequently includes as much mat-
s per square yard for new Purbeck Squares and Moor
ter as any large aud expensive quarto. After the sale of three
g and Moor Stone Curb respectively. And also for
editions of this Dictionary, each 6000 in number, and the credit and
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ne time the Committee will be ready to receive Pro-
comes matter of surprise that another Author, parodying its con.
roviding and Lighting from 600 to 800 Eilobularlatnps
tents, should hate had the temerity to bring out a similar work
oals to specify the price at which the Proposer will en-
having the same object, and not containing one-twelfth more
the same at per Lamp, either with two spout Burners
matter, at the enormous price of three guineas ! The public are
wick to contain 18 threads, or with one broad wick
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he price in each way to be specified distinctly. Sam-
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sort mast be produced, and the Lamps to be cleaned
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e in every fortnight, or oftener, if required. 1
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Bing to contract for Cleansing the said Parish, and tak-
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way the Mud and other filth from the Public Streets,
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equired. Each of such Proposals to be separate, and This day was published, in Six elegant Volumes, post octavo,
to the respective matters above stated, it being the in- embellished with Portraits by CAROLINE Wasrsore, price
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cleansing the Streets,end taking away the Dust, Ashes, gently bound, fora Literary Present,
same Pelson, or by different Persons, either together "j `HE CABINET OF POETRY ; containing the
e—the said Contract to be for one year, and to coat- J. best ENTIRE PIECES which are to be found in the WORKA
Michaelmas nest. of the BRITISH POETS, from MILTON to BEATTIE ;
ontractor or Contractors is or are to find all Carts, printed in Chronological Series, and the Works of each Poet pre-
aid Implements necessary fur the several Works above faced by an Account of his Life and Character.
and to give sufficient security for the due performance of Selected by S. I. PRATT, Esq.
met, the form of which may be inspected, by applying at "If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the
nittee-room, at the Workhouse of St. Clement Danes.— Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be
its of the Securities must be specified in the respective to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain."
1. By Order of the Committee,
THOS. FlA___-•.---------t"ENNINGS ' Clerk.
" BURKE.
The Poets at large, like the Statutes at large, are proverbial
.-._ ..: .. :.. .f March was published, for the quantity of worthless lumber which they contain, and
• _ .--- e-.... e he..., sax on the nurse and patience of the Pub-