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the eipenee of the Great Ones !.

Among other new Scenes and Decorations, will be given a nett
Invention of an Oven to bake certain Heads !

" Every thing in this world is big with jeft, and !vs wit in it,
and inftrudtion too—if we can but find it out. Here is the glafs for
the Literati. Dilletanti, and Cognorcenti to view themfclves in, in
their true dimenfions. 0 there is a Hulk and Shell, Yorick, which
grows up with Learning, which their unfltilfulnefs knows not how
to Sing away. Sciences may be learned by rote, but Wifdom not."
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A NEW CYCLONEOIA,
TO BE COMPLETED IN TWELVE MONTHS.
On Saturday, February the ift, will be publifbed in ctiarto,
Price Nine Shilinga, Part I. of
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A NEW and COMPENDIOUS DICTIONARY
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of ARTS and SCIENCES, to be completed within the year,
by the publication of one part on the firit day of every fubfequent
month, the whole making twelve parts, or two large and elegant
quarto volumes, with one hundred copper plates.
Ey G: GREGORY. D. D.
Doctor in Philofophy and the Arts, and Honorary Member of the
Imperial Univerfity of \Vilna; Member of the Manclaefter
and Newcaftle Literary and Philufophical Societies; Honorary
Member of the Board of Agriculture; Author of Ways Hilto.
rical and Moral, the CEs.inonly ut Nature, &e.

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A DICTIONARY of ARTS and SCIENCES, in a compendi-
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ther than copying what has been done by others, and exhibiting a
clear but concife view of •Le prefent Rate of the various branches
of human knowledge. has long been a molt clearable object to the
Engfins Reader.
A DiCtionary is properly a work of refrence, and not of detail.
and thole who with to become adepts it: any one art or fcience, will
fcarccly Rudy it from au Encycler.edia exciufively.
That a complete view of the Arts and Sciences may how-
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printing ; that the fiat edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
extended only to three thin volumes quarto; and that many ex-
cellent Works of a fimilar kind, and not of a greater extent,
have been publifficd in, foreign countries. fhe retrenchment alto
of many fuperfluous and ufclefs articles, which have latterly
found their way into books of this defcription, will evidently
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1 impairing the intrinfic value andgenerai utility of the work.
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reference.
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