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ENCYCLOP/EDI A BRIIANNICA.

On Mon.'.ay, Feb. 1, 1813, will be published, handsomely printed
in 410. with a givatly improved set of Engravings, price 183.
b,ards, Voi. I. Part 1. of
r.I44I‘..CYCLO VIEDIA BRITANNICA ; or, a Dic-.
i tionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature,—
Fifth Ed.:lon, greatly improved.
Edinburgh : Printed at the Encyclopzdia t tffice, for Archibald
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In the 'composition of this part of the work, the Proprietors
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that they have reason to expect the assistance. of Mr. Dugald
Stewart, on Moral and Political Philosophy; Professor Pintail.,
on Mathematics and Physics; and Sir Humphrey Davy, on the
Philosophy of Chemistry. .
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which has not hitherto attended any similar undertaking. The
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