The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-11

LITTELL,s LIVING AGE.
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THIS work is conducted in the spirit of LittelPs
i Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which
favorably received by the public for twenty years,)
but 1t is twice as large and appears so often, we
not only give spirit and freshness to it by many
things which were excluded by months delay,
but while thus extending scope, and gathering
a greater and more attractive variety, able
to increase the solid and substantial part of lit
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satisfy the wants of the American reader.
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and changes of foreign countries. And this not
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cannot compute or foresee.
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