Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the English Writers Previous to the Nineteenth Century which are No Longer in Use, Or are Not Used in the Same Sense. And Words which are Now Used Only in the Provincial Dialects, Volume 2

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G. Bell & Sons, 1886 - English language - 1039 pages

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Page 16 - ENNEMOSER'S History of Magic. Trans, by W. Howitt. With an Appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Table-Turning, and SpiritRapping, &c.
Page 10 - DIDRON'S Christian Iconography ; a History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages. By the late AN Didron. Trans. by EJ Millington, and completed, with Additions and Appendices, by Margaret Stokes.
Page 10 - CRUIKSHANK'S Three Courses and a Dessert ; comprising three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal ; and a Melange.
Page 2 - History of the House of Austria, From the Foundation of the Monarchy by Rhodolph of Hapsburgh to the Death of Leopold II., 1218-1792.
Page 9 - HENRY OF HUNTINGDON'S History of the English, from the Roman Invasion to the Accession of Henry II. ; with the Acts of King Stephen, and the Letter to Walter. By T. Forester, MA Frontispiece from an old MS.
Page 14 - In Prose, with Notes and Arguments, by Rev. J. Banks, MA To which are appended the METRICAL VERSIONS of Chapman. Portrait of Theocritus. THUCYDIDES. The Peloponnesian War. Trans., with Notes, by Rev. H. Dale. Portrait. 2 vols. 35. 6</. each. TYRT.EUS.— See Theocritus. VIRGIL. The Works of. In Prose, with Notes by Davidson.
Page 14 - ... and Mice. In English Prose, with Notes and Memoir by TA Buckley, BA HORACE. In Prose by Smart, with Notes selected by TA Buckley, BA Portrait. 3$. 6d. JULIAN THE EMPEROR. Containing. Gregory Mazianzea's Two Invectives and Libanus' Monody, with Julian's Theosophical Works.
Page 18 - A Dictionary of Political, Constitutional, Statistical, and Forensic Knowledge ; forming a Work of Reference on subjects of Civil Administration, Political Economy, Finance, Commerce, Laws, and Social Relations. 4 vols.
Page 5 - Memoirs of. Containing the Histories of Louis XI. and Charles VIII., and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. With the History of Louis XL, by J.
Page 11 - Sharon Turner's History of the AngloSaxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest.

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