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Oliver Goldsmith, edited by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A. 

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 pactness of bulk, and economy of price. Accordingly, 

 these handsome library volumes will be published at 

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 and will be proved to the world when he gives us his 

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 ham has had peculiar advantages. Besides his own 

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 a liberality on the part of those gentlemen which de- 

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 With such aid as this, and his own industry and ability 

 to boot, it is little wonder that Mr. Cunningham has 

 been able to produce under Mr. Murray's auspices the 

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Of all the critics of Mr. Dod's Peerage, Baronetage, 

 and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Mr. Dod 

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 the next heir, of any title of honour, has been renewed 

 and extended with such success, that many hundred 

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