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The scientific articles are evidently the productions of learned and accomplished 

 men. Many of the papers deserve especial commendation, as presenting the 

 latest developments in their various departments of research. — National In- 

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Our own country has never before been so fairly or fully represented in any Cy- 

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To enumerate one half of its excellences would require far more space than news- 

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There is no conceivable topic which is not here discussed as fnlly as most persons 

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It should be in every family, for in no other shape can so much useful information 

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It is, without doubt, the most complete work of the kind ever published. To 

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There can be no doubt that, at least for the use of American readers, and in some 

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Take it all in all— for the strict purposes of an Encyclopsedia; for a clear survey of 

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It is a most extraordinary effort of genial scholarship and of multum inparvo 

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The various subjects are not treated according to the mere routine of technical 

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