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Princeton Chiversity

Library

THE

WORLD'S LACONICS;

OR THE

Best Thoughts of the Best Authors.

IN PROSE AND POETRY.

BY TRYON EDWARDS.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION

BY

WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE, D.D.

"Quotation, sir, is a good thing; there is a community of mind in it; classical quotation is the parois
of literary men all over the world."--Dr. Johnson.

“Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-giasses—to collect the
diffused rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon
the reader's imagination."—Swift.

NEW YORK:

M. W. DODD, PUBLISHER,

506 BROADWAY,

(OPPOSITE ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL.)

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852,

BY M. W. DODD,

In the Clerk's Office for the Southern District of New York.

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THOMAS B. SMITH, STEREOTYPER,

R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER,

216 WILLIAM STREET, N. Y.

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