The republic., 1852-01-13
LTTTELL's LIVING AGE.
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l. Museum of Foreign Literature, (Which wns
favorably received by the public for twenty years,)
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things which were excluded by months delay,
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satisfy the wants of the American reader.
The elaborate and stately Essays OF the EdiI.
burgh, Quarterly, and other Reviews; and Black
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the British colonies.
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and changes of foscign countries. And this not
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