Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-12-15
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1875.
New Publications.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1875.
New Publications.
ruf cArsKiLI rnEms, Harper Brother.. publisher.
New York Ciy
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There is hardly poem In the whole collection
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| two Of well known iavontes, are many Others not
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antry or pathos We are not put of here, as in
/ " Rnassus, with single stanza Of Shelley
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statemen, that the only version Of the entire
works Of Plato is that published by Taylor There
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a second edition is soon to appear But 10 those
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all Plato wrote we commend this volume, as Civ
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