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    New Books. 4311

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    Embellished Works Of The Season. The Boo...

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    phrases aad terms of expires * sion ^ so vague and lax , that the meaning is sometimes obscuredr He also professes to avoid " pedantries , " technicalities * and " crack-jaw words . " Now we cannot but think that

    a little more systematic use of well-explained technicalities would h & ve helped to make the meaning clearer , and the style more condensed . On the other hand , there is a profuse sprinkling of Latin and Greek

    quotations which many will be very ready to designate by an epithet Mr Johnson deprecates ; and in truth they are quite out of place in a work intended peculiarly for popular instruction . Mr Johnson must either

    expect a very limited sale for his volume , or he must have odd notions as to the general amount of education . The work is chiefly a detailed account of the process of digestion , or assimilation , and is calculated

    to convey much valuable information to its readers . We are glad to see works of the kind multiply . Their numbers coun * teract the effects of dogmatism , by the clashing and opposition of disputed opinions , while they

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    confirm and strengthen aeknow- ' ladged ia ? uih |;¦ Jby % o <|^ rcj 3 # n < 3 ^ dence % on essential points * . ;^ , ¦ ¦

    New Books. 4311

    New Books . 4311

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    {Notices Of The Following Bopk^ Are Unav...

    { Notices of the following bopk ^ are unavoidably delayed till ftextt month , partly by the , press pff matter , partly % y the l ^ e ^ ri ^ lt of some of them : — 'RQbertOwen ' si Six Lectures ; Curtis on the : Pre- > servatio / i & f Mealth i Sputiiey'si Poetical vForks , collected by himself , Yols . 1 and 2 ; JLpu- ?

    don ' s Suburban G ^ arc ^ ener ; ( j & ay we ask why we have not the pleasure of receiving the numbers regularly ?) Memoirs of the late Bishop of Norwich ; Mackenzie's Literary Varieties ; Me-Ugion and Religions JEdiccatio ^ i ; Dr Channing ' s J ^ nmacation aftfie Texas ; the Three Opinions , Tory , Whi g ^ and Radical ; the Book of the Cartoons ; Heath ' s Book of Beautyy the Keepsake , Children of the Nobility , Medallion Portraits of Authors of Great Britain . Comic and other

    Almanacks , the Sketches Manual , & cc . ; and last , assuredly not least , the Pentameron and Pentalogia . ]

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 1, 1837, page 4311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01121837/page/63/