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Page iv - Historical and Descriptive Account of British India. From the most Remote Period to the Present Time. Including a Narrative of the Early Portuguese and English Voyages, the Revolutions in the Mogul Empire, and the Origin, Progress, and Establishment of the British Power; with Illustrations of the Botany, Zoology, Climate, Geology, and Mineralogy.
Page iv - LIVES AND VOYAGES OF DRAKE, CAVENDISH, AND DAMPIER; Including "an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Bucaniers.
Page 533 - Principles of Arithmetic, and their Application to Business explained in a Popular Manner, and clearly Illustrated by Simple Rules and Numerous Examples. Remodelled and greatly Enlarged, with Exercises on the proposed Decimal Coinage.
Page iv - THE TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT ; being a condensed Narrative of his Journeys in the Equinoctial Regions of America, and in Asiatic Russia: together with Analyses of his more important Investigations. By w MACGILLIVRAY AM Intcratttif World In 2 vols.
Page iv - A VIEW OF ANCIENT AND MODERN EGYPT. With an Outline of its Natural History.
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Page 49 - Ireland to be taken out by every person who shall use any dog, gun, net, or other engine for the purpose of taking or killing any game whatever, or any woodcock, snipe, quail, or landrail, or any conies, or any deer...
Page 55 - Where any such legacy or residue, or any share of inch residue, shall have been given or have devolved to or for the benefit of a child of the deceased or any descendant of a child of the deceased, or to or for the benefit of the father or mother or any lineal ancestor of the deceased, a duty at and after the rate of one pound per centum on the amount or value thereof — 11.
Page 533 - ... expressed most luminously, and with that proper medium of exposition equally removed from verbose amplification and obscure brevity. The arrangement too of the subjects merits praise, and the tables annexed to the end are beautifully, and, as far as we have been able to examine them, correctly printed. It is high but hardly exaggerated praise, to say of this little manual, that it comprehends nearly as much mathematics, that is, as many useful mathematical facts, as the three-volume course of...
Page 534 - THE object of the present undertaking is to produce a series of Elementary Works, which to comprehensiveness of design shall unite clearness of method and ability of execution. With this view it has been thought advisable to adopt the Catechetical form, as the one most likely to attract and make a lasting impression upon the youthful mind. The different subjects have been intrusted to writers eminent in their respective departments ; and the Publishers have resolved to spare neither trouble nor expense...