Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-10-05


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PROFESSOR FROST,
whose ample scholarship, enlarged information,
correct taste, and acknowledged ability as ele-
giant and instructive writer peculiarly qualify him
for the management of a periodical devoted to
young people, the publisher has engaged the
EDITORIAL AID OF r. S. ARTHUR,
gentleman so favorably known to the American
public, through the medium of his unsurpassed pro-
auctions, that it would be idle to pronounce any
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Endowed with an extraordinary acuteness of per-
ceptIon, and the most vivid power Of delineation,
he has applied these rare gifts 10 the development
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confidently be asserted, have already been AVA
kened TO a sense of duties unperformed or evil
habits unrestraned, by the simple and unobtrusive
but searching lessons he has taught, and in the new
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him, no doubt can be entertained that he will reap
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on the community.
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md improve the high character which the Young
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he great object of the work-namely, to convey
''seful knowledge in such form as will CRAFTY
ne tastes while it will improve the minds and
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cially addressed
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70 either OF the many admirable periodicals now
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