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Littells Museum of Foreign Literature,
(Which was favorably received by the public
Tor twenty years. butas it is twice as large,
and appears so. often, we not only give spirit
and ffeshness'to it by many things which
were excluded BY a months delay, but while
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American reader.
The elaborate and stately ESSAYS Of the
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