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gferatian to say , that the amount of aclvertteim ? in America is to that in the British Isles as forty to < nne . * ( Tb . ) The Boston papers alone publish more
advertisements than those of all England , London included . As a commercial question , but still more as a question affecting the means of public instruction , we trust that this subject will be pressed upon the attention of the Legislature during the present Session . Surely the Lord Chancellor will not allow the Cabinet to be a society for preventing the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge .
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Art XII—The Foreigner ' s English Conjugntor ; elucidated through French Examples . By Justin Brenan . Wilson . Mr . Brenan ' s object , in this work , is to elucidate the meaning of the words ( coujugators ) by which ** the management of English verbs is effected , " viz . will and would , shall and should , may
and might , can and could , must and ought ; and , in particular , to dissipate the mystery which has been thrown over will and shall , and shew the extent to which the employment of those words is optional . Their use , with that of their derivatives would and should , is " illustrated through seven different languages , exclusive of English . " Mr . Brenau ' a book may be studied with great advantage both by foreigners and natives .
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Art . XIII . —A Discussion of Parliamentary Reform . By a Yorkshire Freeholder . 8 vo . pp . 55 . We have to thank the author of the ' * Kssays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions" for this admirable pamphlet . It is a chapter of Moral Philosophy , and glad should" we be of a whole treatise like unto it . For its clear logic ; for its combination of simplicity and originality ; for its correct yet ex-
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Art . XV—An Introduction to the Differential and Integral Calculus , unth an Appendix , illustrative of the Theory of Curves . By James Thomson , LL . D ., Professor of Mathematics in Belfast College . 8 vo . pp . 252 .
The Belfast College , better known a * the Belfast Academical Institution , is but of modern foundation ; yet it has done much during its young existence for the advancement of useful learning in the part of the United Kingdom in which it is situated . Some of its Professors have been laudably industrious in composing elenieutary books for the use of students in their respective departments of science . The work before us is the fourth
Treatise produced by Dr . Thomson since his appointment to the Mathematical Chair in the Institution . Its plan and execution do the author much credit , and claim for his work a high rank among performances of this class . The priucfples of the Differential aud Integral
Calculus , according to the method of Lagrange , ( which is now almost universally acknowledged to be the best , ) are
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tensive views ; and for its unaffected morality ; this productiori wdnld be * utfost valuable , even did it not relate to a tdpic which more than any other occupies the attention aud involves the interests of the community . May its seasonable publication accelerate those times of reformation which must come , and which neither direct opposition nor inefficient expedients can very long delay !
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Art . XI —Speech delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Northiam District Association By James Taplin , Unitarian Minister , Battle . A very auimatcd effusion , of which the following sentiment , in which every sound head and heart must concur , is the theme : " May that religion which has God for its author , knowledge , liberty , and happiness for its end , become as universal as light . "
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Art . XIV . — The History and Topography of the United States of North America . Edited by J . H . Hinton , A . M . Illustrated with Views and Maps . 4 to . Parts I . to VI . 3 * . each .
The Prospectus stages that this work will be completed in about thirty monthly parts , each of which is to contain twenty-four pages of letter press , and three highly-finished line engravings on steel . It will occupy a high rank amongst publications which are at once handsome ,
cheap , and useful . The engravings are beautifully executed , and the subjects well chosen . So far as we can judge from the specimens before us , the literary portion of the work will do great credit to the diligence , judgment , and spirit , of the Editor .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1831, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2594/page/51/
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