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Eclectic Review,

MDCCCXVI.

JANUARY-JUNE.

NEW SERIES.

VOL. V.

Φιλοσοφίαν δε ου την Στωικην λεγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικήν, η την Επικουρείο, τε
και Αριστοτελικήν αλλ' όσα είρηται παρ έκαστη των αιρεσεων τουτων καλως,
δικαιοσυνην μετα ευσεβούς επιστημης εκδιδάσκοντα, τουτο συμπαν το ΕΚΛΕΚΤΙΚΟΝ
φιλοσοφίαν φημι.

CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. 1.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY JOSIAH CONDER, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

SOLD ALSO BY

DEIGHTON AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE;

AND OLIPHANT, WAUGH, AND INNES, EDINBURGH.

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H. Bryer Printer, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London.

Ali Bey's Travels in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, &c.
Ambrose's Opoleyta; or a Tale of Ind: a Poem

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Duncan's Essay on the Nature and Advantages of Parish Banks
Durant's Discourse on the best Method of Preaching Christ
Edgeworth's Memoirs of the Abbé Edgeworth

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Elphinstone's Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies 457,556
Gibbon's, Edward, Esq. Miscellaneous Works, &c. Edited by Right Hon.
Lord Sheffield

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Mant's Two Tracts, intended to convey correct Notions of Regeneration
and Conversion

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Morell's Studies in History; containing the History of Rome
Morris's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Andrew Fuller

Notes intended as Materials for a Memoir on the Affairs of the Protestants of
the Department Du Gard

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. For the Year

1814. Parts I. and II.

Preston's Review of the present ruined condition of the Landed and Agri-
cultural Interests

Private Hours of Napoleon Buonaparte

Resolutions and Statements relative to the Persecution of the French Pro-
testants

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Scott's, John, Paris Revisited, in 1815, by Way of Brussels
Rev. John, Enquiry into the Effect of Baptism.

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Prescience, or the Secrets of Divination: a Poem

Second Report of the London Society for the Improvement and Encourage-
ment of Female Servants

Sharpe's Report from the Committee appointed to consider of Provision
being made for the better Regulation of Madhouses in England

Siege of Corinth a Poem. Parisina: a Poem

Sismondi's Considerations sur Genève dans ses Rapports avec l'Angleterre, etc.

Smedley's Jonah. A Poem

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Williams's, Miss H. M. Narrative of the Events which have taken Place in
France, from the 1st of March, 1815, till the Restoration of Louis XVIII.
On the late Persecution of the Protestants in the

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Williams's, Thos. Moral Tendency of Knowledge
Wilson's Inquiry in the Causes of the High Prices of Corn and Labour, &c. 417
--, Walter, History of Dissenting Churches and Meeting Houses in
London, Westminster, and Southwark
Woodcock's Reply to a Letter from the Rev. Thomas Gisborne, to the Hon.
and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester, &c.

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ECLECTIC REVIEW,

FOR JANUARY, 1816.

Art. I. The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. with Memoirs of his Life and Writings; composed by Himself; illustrated from his Letters, with occasional Notes and Narrative. By the Right Hon. John Lord Sheffield. A new Edition, with considerable Additions, 5 vols, Svò. pp. xlviii, 2928. Price 31. 5s. London. Murray. 1815.

THERE is something, at first sight, extremely embarrassing

to the critic, in such an appearance as that of the present Publication. It is not given to the world as a new work, but purports to be no more than a new edition of an old one; of one which made its appearance many years ago, in a quarto form. That work, as is generally known, was so favourably received, that the public may well be supposed sufficiently acquainted with its contents, no longer to stand in need either of the critic's judgement, to influence or to deter from the purchase, or of the production of select passages, to serve as specimens of the style, or as substitutes for the work itself, to those readers who, from whatever motive, might choose to be satisfied with splendid portions instead of the whole.

But, though it is no more than a new edition of an old work, it is, however, one, improved, according to the title, with considerable additions, which additions are supposed to amount to about one third of the former publication. Of these additions, then, at least, the reader of a review might expect to meet with some more particular notice.

It would, however, be no easy matter, in many cases, to distinguish, in an extensive series of narrative composition, what has been added, from the information originally given, incorporated as both are through a considerable portion of the work. And even to distinguish accurately the addition of several letters to and from Mr. Gibbon, from those formerly published, would require a more minute comparison of both editions, than is easily instituted, or would be likely to reward the time and pains necessary to be bestowed on it.'

But, should even these difficulties be surmounted, and the VOL. V. N.S.

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