MISCELLANEOUS.
A MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT, with
a Review of the History of Maritime Discovery.
Illustrated by Documents from
the Rolls, now first published.
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without a name, this work is of paramount importance
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the author, with just astonishment, "be deemed almost
incredible, that the very instrument in the Records of
England, which recites the Great Discovery, and plainly
contemplates a scheme of Colonization, should, up to
this moment, have been treated by her own writers as
that which first gave permission to go forth and explore?"
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HISTORY OF THE NORTHMEN, OR NORMANS
AND DANES; from the earliest
times to the Conquest of England by
William of Normandy. By Henry Wheaton,
Member of the Scandinavian and
Icelandic Literary Societies of Copenhagen.
This work embraces the great leading features of Scandinavian
history, commencing with the heroic age, and
advancing from the earliest dawn of civilization to the
introduction of Christianity into the North—its long and
bloody strife with Paganism—the discovery and colonization
of Iceland, Greenland, and North America, by the
Norwegian navigators, before the time of Columbus—the
military and maritime expeditions of the Northmen—
their early intercourse of commerce and war with Constantinople
and the Eastern empire—the establishment
of a Norman state in France, under Rollo, and the subjugation
of England, first by the Danes, under Canute
the Great, and subsequently by the Normans, under
Duke William, the founder of the English monarchy.
It also contains an account of the mythology and literature
of the ancient North—the Icelandic language prevailing
all over the Scandinavian countries until the
formation of the present living tongues of Sweden and
Denmark—an analysis of the Eddas, Sagas, and various
chronicles and songs relating to the Northern deities and
heroes, constituting the original materials from which
the work has been principally composed. It is intended
to illustrate the history of France and England during
the middle ages, and at the same time to serve as an
introduction to the modern history of Denmark, Norway,
and Sweden.
THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY.
Containing the Doctrines, Duties, Admonitions,
and Consolations, of the Christian Religion.
By John Burns, M. D., F. R. S. From the 4th
London edition. In 1 vol. 12mo.
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PRIVATE MEMORIS OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE,
from the French of M. Fauvelet
de Bourrienne, Private Secretary to
the Emperor.
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his literary accomplishments and moral qualifications,
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principles of Napoleon.
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United States of North America; with an
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Government of the United States, by M. de
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the French by an American Citizen. In
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THE SUMMER FETE. A Poem, with Songs.
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