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Natural History and Philosophy.
GEOLOGICAL MANUAL, by H. T. De la Beche, F. R. S.,
F. G. S., Mem. Geol. Soc. of France. In 8vo. With 104 Wood
Cuts.
“A work of first-rate importance in the science to which it relates, and which
must henceforth take its place in the Library of every student in Geology.”
—Phil. Magazine.
ELEMENTS of PHYSICS, or NATURAL PHILOSOPHY,
GENERAL and MEDICAL, explained independently of
TECHNICAL MATHEMATICS, and containing New Disquisitions
and Practical Suggestions. By Neill Arnott, M. D.
Second American from the fourth London edition, with Additions
by Isaac Hays, M. D.
“Dr. Arnott's work has done for Physics as much as Locke's Essay did for
the science of mind.”
—London University Magazine.
“We may venture to predict that it will not be surpassed.”
—Times.
“Dr. A. has not done less for Physics than Blackstone did for the Law.”
—Morning Herald.
“Dr. A. has made Natural Philosophy as attractive as Buffon made Natural
History.”
—French Critic.
“A work of the highest class among the productions of mind.”
—Courier.
“We regard the style and manner as quite admirable.”
—Morning Chronicle
“As interesting as novel-reading.”
—Athenæum.
“Never did philosophic hand wield a pen more calculated to win men to be
wise and good.”
—Edinburgh Observer.
“Of this valuable, or we might say, invaluable work, a second edition has
been speedily demanded by the public voice.”
—Lit. Gaz.
ARNOTT'S ELEMENTS of PHYSICS. Vol. II. Part I.
Containing Light and Heat.
“Dr. Arnott's previous volume has been so well received, that it has almost
banished all the flimsy productions called popular, which falsely pretend to strip
science of its mysterious and repulsive aspect, and to exhibit a holiday apparel.
The success of such a work shows most clearly that it is plain but sound knowledge
which the public want.”
—Monthly Review.
AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY, or NATURAL HISTORY
of BIRDS, inhabiting the UNITED STATES. By Charles
Lucien Bonaparte; designed as a continuation of Wilson's
Ornithology, Vols. I. II. III. and IV.
* * * Gentlemen who possess Wilson, and are desirous of rendering the
work complete, are informed that the edition of this work is very small,
and that but a very limited number of copies remain unsold.
A DISCOURSE on the REVOLUTIONS of the SURFACE
of the GLOBE and the Changes thereby produced in
the ANIMAL KINGDOM. By Baron G. Cuvier. Translated
from the French, with Illustrations and a Glossary. In
12mo. With Plates.
“One of the most scientific and important, yet plain and lucid works, which
adorn the age.”—Here is vast aid to the reader interested in the study of
nature, and the lights which reason and investigation have thrown upon the
formation of the universe.”
—New Monthly Magazine.
JUST PUBLISHED BY CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD,
PRIVATE MEMOIRS of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, from
the French of M. Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Private Secretary
to the Emperor. Second American Edition, with great
additions; complete in one volume.
“This English translation, which has been very faithfully rendered, is
still more valuable than the original work, as upon all points where any
obliquity from other published recitals occurs, the translator has given several
accounts, and thus, in the form of notes, we are presented with the
statements obtained from Napoleon's own dictation at St. Helena, from the
Memoirs of the Duke of Rovigo, of General Rapp, of Constant, from the
writings of the Marquis of Londonderry, &c.”
—U. Ser. Jour.
“The peculiar advantages of position in regard to his present subject,
solely enjoyed by M. de Bourrienne, his literary accomplishments and
moral qualifications, have already obtained for these memoirs the first rank
in contemporary and authentic history. In France, where they had been
for years expected with anxiety, and where, since the revolution, no work
connected with that period or its consequent events has created so great a
sensation, the volumes of Bourrienne have, from the first, been accepted
as the only trustworthy exhibition of the private life and political principles
of Napoleon.
“We know from the best political authority now living in England, that
the writer's accounts are perfectly corroborated by facts.”
—Lit. Gaz.
“The only authentic Life of Napoleon extant.”
—Courier.
“This splendid publication that literally leaves nothing to be desired.
—Atlas.
“These volumes may be read with all the interest of a romance.”
—Courier.
“No person who is desirous rightly to appreciate the character of Bonaparte,
will neglect the perusal of this work; whoever wishes to know, not
merely the General or the Emperor, but what the man really was, will
find him well pictured here.”
—Times.
“The completest personal recollections of Napoleon that have appeared.”
—Morn. Post.
“As a part of the history of the most extraordinary man, and the most
extraordinary times that ever invited elucidation, these memoirs must continue
to the latest ages to be records of invaluable interest.”
—Lit. Gaz.
NARRATIVE of a VOYAGE to the PACIFIC and BEHRING'S
STRAIT, to co-operate with the Polar Expeditions:
performed in His Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of
Capt. F. W. Beechey, R. N. in the years 1825, 26, 27, 28. 8vo.
“The most interesting of the whole series of expeditions to the North
Pole.”
—Quarterly Review.
“This expedition will be for ever memorable as one which has added
immensely to our knowledge of this earth that we inhabit.”
—Blackwood's
Magazine.
“Captain Beechey's work is a lasting monument of his own abilities,
and an honor to his country.
—Lit. Gaz.
A GENERAL VIEW of the PROGRESS of ETHICAL
PHILOSOPHY, chiefly during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth
centuries. By Sir James Mackintosh, M. P. In 8vo.
“This, in our humble opinion, is the best offspring of the pen of an author
who in philosophical spirit, knowledge and reflection, richness of
moral sentiment, and elegance of style, has altogether no superior—perhaps
no equal—among his contemporaries. Some time ago we made copious
extracts from this beautiful work. We could not recommend the
whole too earnestly.”
—National Gazette.
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