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50 cents 75 cents adventurers advertised American angle antique morocco antique or tree-calf ARCHITECT Beautifully illustrated Boston calf or seal Capital Prizes circumſtance Clafs Columbian Centinel commence drawing Crushed levant Dartmouth College Engravings F. B. SANBORN faid Faneuil Hall finiſhing flexible calf fortunate number fuch full-page GEORGE Gilt top granted a lottery H. H. Richardson Half-calf Harvard College Lottery Heliotypes HENRY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW highest prize History houſe HOWELLS'S JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE Lady Little-Classic lottery tickets Managers Massachusetts Morocco antique Notes and Introduction OLD LOTTERY paper covers Perfons Plymouth Beach Poems poet Portraits Prize of 500 Prizes paid Public publiſhed Purpoſe raiſed Robin Series Round-Robin Series Salem Gazette Samuel scheme Series of novels ſhall ſhould silk linings sold SOUTH HADLEY CANAL ſtate TENNYSON tery themſelves Thomas thoſe Tickets and Quarters TICKNOR AND COMPANY tions town uſe volumes W. D. HOWELLS W. J. ROLFE WILLIAM wiſhes ΙΟ
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Pagina 15 - MODERN PERSPECTIVE. A TREATISE UPON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PLANE AND CYLINDRICAL PERSPECTIVE. By WILLIAM R. WARE, Professor of Architecture in the School of Mines, Columbia College.
Pagina 60 - There is not, however, a more certain proposition in Mathematics, than that the more tickets you adventure upon, the more likely you sire to be a loser. Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain ; and the greater the number of your tickets, the nearer you approach to this certainty.
Pagina 60 - The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery ; or one in which the whole gain compensated the whole loss ; because the undertaker could make nothing by it. In the state lotteries the tickets are really not worth the price which is paid by the original subscribers, and yet commonly sell in the market for twenty, thirty, and sometimes forty per cent, advance.
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Pagina 1 - A series of 12mo volumes by the best writers, embracing the lives of the most famous and popular American Actors. Illustrated. Six volumes In three. Sold only in sets. Per set, $5.00. Vol. I. Edwin Forrest. By Lawrence Barrett. The Jeffersons.
Pagina 8 - The Siege of London ; The Pension Beaurepas ; and The Point of View. I2mo, $1.50. Tales of Three Cities (The Impressions of a Cousin; Lady Barberina; A New-England Winter).