The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-05-13
LTTTELL'S LIVING AGE.
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Il Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which was
favorably received by the public for twenty years.
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not only give spirit and freshness TO it by many
things which were excluded by a months delay,
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satisfy the wants of the American reader.
The elaborate and stately Essays of the Edin-
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