1 LITTELL'S LIVING AGE. PROSPECTUS. This work is conducted in the spirit of Littell's Museum of Foreign Literature, (which was favorably received by the public for twenty years,) but as it is twice as large, and appears so often, we not only give spirit and freshness to it by many things which were excluded by a month's delay, but while thus extending our scope and gathering a greater and more attractive variety, are able so to increase the solid and substantial part of our literary, historical, and political harvest, as fully to satisfy the wants of the American reader. 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WORKS PUBLISHED AT THE OFFICE OF THE LIVING THE STORY OF A FAMILY, by the Author of "The Maiden Aunt"—27 THE MAIN AUNT, by S. M.- 25 Cents. THE MODERN VASSALA Story of Poland 25 Cents. AGE. elligent American winnowing the th undantly for the Biography, Voye matter, we mat , while at the s dard of public tast Hesirous of making merica, for increas For doing this a libe emen who will inte we will gladly com who will send us riage.] Pozen, 1842. 1 vol. 8vo. 5. Mystini ozyli Caloksrtall Loiki Narodowe of Thinking, or System of National Logic. By the Pozen, 1844. 2 vols. 6. Urywki Polityorne. [Political Fragments.] Pa 1845. 1 vol. 8vo. THE Polish nation possessed, during a thousand years, a larger country than modern France, between the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Carpathian Mountains. There civilization and learning flourished brighter than elsewhere, in the 15th and 16th centuries, under the free institutions and wise government of the Jagellon dynasty. They sheltered, by their protective shield, numerous families which were persecuted, on account of religious and political freedom, in the rest of Europe. They served as a bulwark against the frequent encroachments of the Asiatic hordes, while Europe wanted to organize herself and develop her civilization and military power. This Polish nation exists no more as a body politic. 37 HE LIVIN 'n Aunt"-f ILTON tincau 15. 051 M414 V.3 660568 MASSACHUSETTS QUARTERLY REVIEW. NO. XI.-JUNE, 1850. ARTICLE I. ON THE NEW TENDENCY OF THE 1. Grundlage der Universellen Philosophie. [Prin 2. Norstudien zur Wissenchaft der Natur. Trentowski. Von [Introduction to the Studies of Natural Sciences.] Leipzig, 1840. 2 vols. 8vo. 3. Chowanna ezyli System Pedagogiki Narodowej. [Education, or System of National Pedagogy. By the same.] Pozen, 1842. 4 vols. 8vo. 4. Aforyzmy o Matzeristwie. [Aphorisms about Marriage.] Pozen, 1842. 1 vol. 8vo. 5. Mystini ozyli Caloksrtall Loiki Narodowej. [Art of Thinking, or System of National Logic. By the same.] Pozen, 1844. 2 vols. 6. Urywki Polityorne. [Political Fragments.] Paris, 1845. 1 vol. 8vo. THE Polish nation possessed, during a thousand years, a larger country than modern France, between the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Carpathian Mountains. There civilization and learning flourished brighter than elsewhere, in the 15th and 16th centuries, under the free institutions and wise government of the Jagellon dynasty. They sheltered, by their protective shield, numerous families which were persecuted, on account of religious and political freedom, in the rest of Europe. They served as a bulwark against the frequent encroachments of the Asiatic hordes, while Europe wanted to organize herself and develop her civilization and military power. This Polish nation exists no more as a body politic. 37 |
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