Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-06-22
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\ BIooRAPnIcAL DIerIoSARY, Comprising Sum-
mary Account of the Lives of the Most Distinguished
Persons Of All Ages Nations and Professions incu-
ding more than two thousand articles of American
Biography, by the Rev. John h. blake, d. D. Tnir-
teenth Edition. Philadelphia. II. Cow perthwait &
Co, Publishers.
The first edition of this most invaluable work was
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four years past the author has been engaged in col
Letting and arranging materials for its enlargement
Sketches of distinguished persons who have died
since the publication of the first edon,and Of others
omitted IN that edition. amounting In the aggregate
TO about 240o--l000 of which are of American biog-
raphy-are embodied in the volume now under no.
tee The original work has long been regarded MS II
standard book OF reference, and its merits have been
extensively known and appreciated by the public
Ia its present greatly enlarged and improved char
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the Dictionary of Wcbstsr. Its typography aud
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MoDERS ArHEfsa &r. &c, by james Buchanan,
p. D., Ill. u. GouH \ Liacoig, Boston
We have been kindly furnished by the Publishers,
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u leading cassic in tho Christian literature of
Britain
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