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ORIGINAL ESSAYS ON POLITE LITERATURE, THE ARTS AND SCIENCES;

POETRY; CRITICISMS ON THE FINE ARTS, THE DRAMA, &c.;.

BIOGRAPHY;

CORRESPONDENCE OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS;

ANECDOTES, JEUX D'ESPRIT, &c.;

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS;

PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC AND LEARNED SOCIETIES;
ASTRONOMICAL REPORTS, METEOROLOGICAL TABLES, LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c.

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1828,

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HIS MAJESTY, from the original Picture by Sir Lawrence, P.R.A. in the Possession of the Marchioness erved in Line, by Mr. WILLIAM FINDEN. Pedals announced, that the above splendid Print,

gth Portrait of His Majesty, King George the bow Capleted; and that a finished proof having been to the King's inspection by Sir Thomas Lawrence, the of it has received His Majesty's gracious sanction. * post care requisite in the printing, which will not adcat burry, a few weeks must elapse before the Prints * "ty for delivery; but Subscribers are assured, that no y delay whatever shall take place, and that the Proofs *ly delivered in their respective order, as soon as pred

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see the Letters, 101, 108.

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ADVICE to the ROMAN CATHOLICS of ENGLAND, 4th edition, with an Appendix and Notes.

tourist's hands, to point out the picturesque scenery; but they are, at the same time, so interesting as literary companions, that the reader may sit by his own fire-side, and reap almost as much amusement from them as if he were actually on the spot. Thus, for the closet or for the country, for the arm-chair or for the adventurer, our popular author is equally calculated to be a favourBir-ite, with his genuine Legends' and characteristic Sayings and Doings.""-Literary Gazette, Dec. 20, 1828. John Ebers and Co. British and Foreign Library, Old Bond Street.

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