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By Robert Kerr. Edin. 1811-22. 18 vols. 8vo. Relation de divers Voyages curieux, qui n'ont point encore été publiés, et qu'on a traduits ou tirés des Originaux des Voyageurs Français, Espagnols, Allemands, &c. &c. Par M. Thevenot. Paris, 1696. 2 vol. fol. This work is seldom found complete: the marks of the complete and genuine edition are given in the Bibliothèque des Voyages, vol. i. pp. 82, 83.
Memoirs of Agriculture and other Oeconomical Arts, 3 vols., by Robert Dossie, London, 1768-82. See ante, ii. 14. Here Lord Macartney remarks, 'A Bramin or any cast of the Hindoos will neither admit you to be of their religion, nor be converted to yours; a thing which struck the Portuguese with the greatest astonishment, when they first discovered the East Indies. BOSWELL. See ante, ii. 250.
Akin to such a briny book as this but more restricted in scope is The Frigate Constitution by Ira N. Hollis, or Rodney Macdonough's Life of Commodore Thomas Macdonough . Edgar Stanton Maclay in The History of the Navy, 3 vols. , has written a most satisfactory account, which contains some capital chapters describing the immortal actions of the Yankee frigates.
For the Dutch Netherlands the great standard work is now P. J. Blok, History of the People of the Netherlands, trans. in large part by O. A. Bierstadt, and for the Belgian Netherlands a corresponding function is performed in French by Henri Pirenne. J. L. Motley, Rise of the Dutch Republic, 3 vols.
The notes are good, and no research seems to have been spared by the writer to establish the position he maintains. Ancient Danish Ballads. Translated from the Originals, by R.C. ALEXANDER PRIOR, M.D. London: Williams & Norgate. Leipzig: R. Hartmann. 1860, 3 vols. pp. lx., 400, 468, 500. Edinburgh Papers. By ROBERT CHAMBERS, F.R.S.E., etc., etc.
Sheridan. Texts: Speeches, 5 vols. Gray. Criticism: Essays, by Lowell, in Latest Literary Essays; by M. Arnold, in Essays in Criticism; by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by A. Dobson, in Eighteenth Century Vignettes. Goldsmith. See also Selections for Reading, above. Criticism: Essays, by Macaulay; by Thackeray; by De Quincey; by A. Dobson, in Miscellanies. Cowper.
LIVY. Vol. I. of Crevier's Edition, 6 vols. 4to. Paris, 1739. OGILBY'S BRITANNIA. Folio, 1675. Vol. II. SWIFT'S WORKS. ADAMS' MORAL TALES, London. AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DR. JOHNSON. Published in 1805. *.* Letters stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to be sent to Mr. Fleet Street.
A Missionary Voyage to the South Pacific Ocean. By Captain Wilson. 1799. 4to. Otaheite is the principal subject of this work. Mariner's Account of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific. 1817. 2 vols. 8vo. This is a very full, accurate, and interesting picture of the manners and character of a singular people, drawn from long and attentive observation on the spot.
Journal of Tour and Residence in Great Britain, 1810-11. By a Frenchman. M. Simond. 2 vols. 8vo. There are few Travels superior to these: literature, politics, political economy, statistics, scenery, manners, &c. are treated of in a manner that displays much talent and knowledge, and less prejudice than foreigners usually exhibit.
The following is a list of the works of Aristotle: ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS Edited by T Taylor, with Porphyry's Introduction, 9 vols, 1812, under editorship of J A Smith and W D Ross, II vols, 1908-31, Loeb editions Ethica, Rhetorica, Poetica, Physica, Politica, Metaphysica, 1926-33 Historia Animalium Schneider, 1812, Aubert and Wimmer, 1860; Dittmeyer, 1907
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