Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science: Designed Chiefly for the Junior ... Higher Classes in Schools (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Excerpt from Elements of General Knowledge, Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal Branches of Literature and Science: Designed Chiefly for the Junior Students in the Universities, and the Higher Classes in Schools

If I should be fortunate enough to succeed in pro curing for eminent writers any additional degree of regard; if I should excite a more ardent and more active attention to any branches of useful knowledge and if the variety Of my topics should contribute to diffuse more widely the light of general information and useful truth I shall have the satisfaction to reflect that my time has not been sacrificed to a frivolous purpose by thus endeavouring, in conformity with the occupations of the most valuable portion of my life,.to instruct the rising generation.

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