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Page 3 - Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, Exhibiting the Origin, Orthography, Pronunciation, and Definitions of Words. Abridged from the Quarto Edition of the Author. To which are added a Synopsis of Words differently Pronounced by different Orthoepists ; and Walker's Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.
Page 2 - Drawing Book (The Illustrated). Comprising a Complete Introduction to Drawing and Perspective ; with Instructions for Etching on Copper or Steel, &c. &c. By ROBERT SCOTT BURN.
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Page 14 - In this class, the fulcrum is at one end, the power at the other, and the weight in the middle.
Page 4 - Professor Webster's English Dictionary has long become a standard English work, albeit the compiler was an American. The present volume is a revised edition of that great work — for such it strictly is — published in a cheap form. Originally given to the world in a quarto form, it was found before long, that an edition in a more compact shape was loudly called for ; and accordingly, in the year 1829, Professor Worcester, of Cambridge, Massachusets, undertook its abbreviation and reduction, under...
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