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CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSse,-edited BY
W. AND R. CHAMBERS.

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PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS;

AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1837.

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NOTICE.

THIS Volume belongs to that department of Chambers's Educational Course which is designed to communicate to young persons the rudiments of useful knowledge. It will be suitable to the more advanced classes in English academies, and serve as a text-book for those lectures on English literature, which are now given in so many institutions for mechanics and others. From its pages, an active teacher in any part of the country raay easily form a series of such lectures, little else being necessary than to add to the specimens of progressive liicrature from the numerous sources at his command. It is further presumed, that such a work canrct fail to be useful to many besides young persons at school,-to all, in short, whose minds have been awakened to a desire of knowledge; guiding them to the stores of English literature, and distinguishing for them those works which are most worthy of their attention.

Being, however humble in object, or limited in extent, the only History of English Literature which has as yet been given to the world, this volume was necessarily the result of considerable labour. Very great pains have

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