Original tales, histories, essays, and translations / By different hands.
| Other author | Gellert, Christian Fürchtegott, 1715-1769 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Edinburgh : Printed for Charles Elliot; and Thomas Dobson bookseller, Philadelphia, M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785] |
| Description | 4 unnumbered pages, 441 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm (8vo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49990. ^A478749 |
| Contents | The history of Sarah Th--. (Translated from the French.) -- The immortality of authors, a vision -- The conspiracy of the Spaniards against the Republic of Venice, in the year 1618 -- Don Carlos, an historical novel. Translated from the French of the Abbot de St Real -- Fables imitated from the German of Gellert -- An account of the sacrifices of heathen nations -- An essay on the confusion of tongues -- The Indians. A tale -- An essay on the arrangement of antient and modern languages -- A discourse on the structure of the Eastern churches ... From the Greek of Symeon, Metropolitan of Thessalonica -- An essay on the causes that have promoted or retarded the growth of the fine arts. |
| General note | Errors in paging: p. 376, 437 misnumbered 176, 337. |
| General note | Not in Evans or Bristol. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49990). |
| Genre/form | Anthologies. |
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