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A NEW CYCLOPA:DIA,

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TO BF. COMPLETED IN TWELVE MONTHS. •
On Saturday, March the tit, will be publifhed in t:Luarto, -
Price Nine Shillings, Part I. bf - -
ANEW and COMPENDIOUS DICTIONARY
of /44.*TS and SCIENCES, to be completed within the yeari,
by the publication of one part on the first day of every fubfequent
month, the whole making twelve parts, or two Largz arid elegant
quarto volumes, with one hundred copper plates.
By G. GREGORY, D. D.
DoCtor in Philofophy and the Arts, andliontwary Member of the
Imperial Univerfity of Wilna ; Member of the Mancbelter
and Newcaftle Literary and Philorophical Societies; Honorary
Member of the Board of Agi 'cohort ; Author of Elfays HMI
rical and Moral, the (Economy of Nature, Bee.
A DICTIONARY of ARTS and SCIENCES, in a compendi.
ous form, feffielently cop' -. without being prolix, accurate bat
not Mae, diveftaal 01 all Inpettluous matter, compreffing ra-
ther than copying what has bean dune by others, and exhibiting a
clear but coucife vicar of the prefent Rate of the various branches
of human knowledge, has long been a molt definable objedt to the
Englith Reader.
A Didion. r-!• is prperly a wort; of reference, and not of detail,
and thole who with to become adepts in any one art or fcience, will
fcarcely Rudy it (rum an Encyclopadia ezelulively.
That a complete view of the Arts and Sciences may how-
ever be exhibited on a fmaller fcale than is uihaily attempted,
will be obvious, if we confider that the Cyclopedia of Chambers
was originally comprifed in two volumes folio, large and open
' printing • that the firit edition of the Eneyelt:pattlia Eritanstics
extended only to three thin volumes quarto; and that many el.
erne= Works of a fimilar kind, and nor of a greater extaitt,
have been publithed in foreign countries. The retrenchment zlfo
of many fumsfluolis and oft leis prticics, which have latterly
found their way into books of this defeription, will evidently
caufe a confi•lerable reduCtion in point of fize, without in reality
impairing the intrinfic value and general utility of the work.
Should, therefore, the execution not difappoint the hopes and
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