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The rational amusement : comprehending a collection of letters on a great variety of subjects, serious, entertaining, moral, diverting, and instructive. Interspersed with essays, and some little Pieces of History, more especially adapted to exercise the Understanding, inform the Judgment, correct the Passions, and to introduce a Philosophick Calmness, and the Maxims of Oeconomick Prudence, in the Conduct of Human Life. With a preface by the author of The memoirs of the Duke de Ripperda.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Campbell, John, 1708-1775.
Standardized Title:
Polite correspondence
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
English letters.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii,432,[8]p. )
Other Title:
Rational amusement
Place of Publication:
London : printed for J. Hodges, facing St. Magnus-Church, London-Bridge, MDCCLIV. [1754]
Notes:
The author of 'The memoirs' = John Campbell.
P.vii misnumbered vi.
Originaly published as: 'The polite correspondence'.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T97138.
OCLC:
642760083

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