A tour round my garden, tr., revised and ed. by J.G. Wood

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Side 333 - Prescott's Works in point of style rank with the ablest English historians, and paragraphs may be found in which the grace and elegance of Addison are combined with Robertson's cadence and Gibson's brilliancy.
Side 261 - Nee varios discet mentiri lana colores, Ipse sed in pratis aries jam suave rubenti Murice, jam croceo mutabit vellera luto ; Sponte sua sandyx pascentes vestiet agnos. 45 Talia saecla, suis dixerunt, currite, fusis Concordes stabili fatorum numine Parcae.
Side 331 - Rev. JG WOOD. Illustrated with 450 Engravings designed expressly for this work by William Harvey ; executed in the first style of art by the brothers DALZIEL; and printed on a superfine tinted paper by Clay; altogether forming the most correct and beautifully illustrated volume that has appeared on the subject of Natural History in a popular form. The principal features of this new edition, are : — 1st. Its accuracy of Information. 2nd. Its Systematic Arrangement. 3rd. Illustrations executed expressly...
Side 333 - Historians— both by the popular voice and the suffrages of the learned. His fame, also, is not merely local, or even national— it is as great in London, Paris, and Berlin, as at Boston or New York. His works have been translated into Spanish, German, French, and Italian ; and, into whatever region they have penetrated, they have met a cordial welcome, and done much to raise the character of American letters and scholarship.

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