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C. D. Yonge, Vol. I — retained OCR sections

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Philo — Works Vol. I, Yonge — Section 106

"And the third river is the Tigris ; this is that which flows in front of Assyria." The third virtue is temperance, which resolutely opposes that kind of pleasure which appears to be the directress of human infirmity. For the translation of the ■name Assyrians in the Greek tongue is tb&bvovre:, (directors) * tottamv, from e congratulated on his skill and judgment as a commentator.' — Atkeiueum. ' From the specimen now before us we may safely predict that Mr. Temple Scott will easily listance bolh Roscoe and Swift. He deserves the gratitude of all lovers of literature for enabling swift again to make his bow to the world in so satisfactory and complete a garb.' — Manchester luardian. ' The re-issue is a worthy addition to Bohn's Libraries, and promises to be by far the most 'aluable edition of Swift's works yet published.' — Pall Mall Gazette. Vol. I.— A Tale of a Tub, The Battle of the Books, and otherrearly woiks. Edited by Temple Scott. With Biographical Introduction Jpy W. E. H. Lecky, M.P. With Portrait and Facsimile. Vol. II.— The Journal to Stella. Edited by F. Ryland, M.A. With a Facsimile Letter and two Portraits of Stella. Vol. III. — Writings on Religion and the Church. Edited by Temple Scott. With a portrait in photogravure after Jervas. \_I11 the press. THE WORKS OF GEORGE BERKELEY, Bishop of Cloyne. Edited by George Sampson. With a Biographical Introduction by the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, M.P. 3 vols. $s. each. [Vol. I ready. rHE LAY OF THE NIBELUNGS. Metrically translated from the Old German Text by Alice Horton, and Edited by Edward Bell, M.A. To which is prefixed the Essay on the Nibelungen Lied, by Thomas Carlyle. 5^. LE LAND'S ITINERARY. Edited by Laurence Gomme, F.S.A. In several volumes. [Preparing. GASPARY'S HISTORY OF ITALIAN LITERATURE. Translated by Hermann Oelsner, Ph.D. Vol. I. [Preparing. MOTLEY'S HISTORY of the RISE of the DUTCH REPUBLIC. With Introduction by Moncure D. Conway, and Portrait of Motley. 3 vols. 3-r. 6d. each.

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