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Selectæ e profanis scriptoribus historiæ. : Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi præcepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 17743.
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Latin language--Readers.
- Latin language.
- Classical literature.
- Genre:
- Readers (Publications)
- Juvenile literature -- 1809.
- Maxims.
- Readers.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 299 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- Hæc editio Philadelphiensis prioribus certe emendatior, et juventati utilior accurante Ja. Ross.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed for Thomas & William Bradford, Bradford & Inskeep, Matthew Carey, Jacob Johnson, C. & A. Conrad & Co. Bennett & Walton, & Benjamin & Thomas Kite., 1809.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Selected and translated by Jean Heuzet.
- "I have made use of all ancient profane authors, Greek as well as Latin, ... I have sometimes even blended them, ... together upon the same thought or the same maxim ... I have generally preferred, ... the Latins to the Greeks ..."--Preface, p. [iii].
- "Typis Thomæ & Gulielmi Bradford."--colophon, p. 299.
- Last page blank.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 17743).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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