several important publications besides the Greek and Roman Classics,-facilitate, as much as possible, the business of reference.

Thus illustrated and introduced, it is hoped that the sterling merit of the works themselves will do the rest: particularly as care will be taken to avoid even the appearance of monotony in the subjects, by following up Politics and Philosophy with Criticismworks on Morals and Education-Biography-Pictures of Manners --and even with Romance, when, as in the UTOPIA of Sir Thomas More, it has been made subservient to some great moral end.

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MILTON.

ACCOUNT OF HIS OWN STUDIES.

APOLOGY FOR HIS EARLY LIFE AND WRITINGS.
TRACTATE ON EDUCATION.

AREOPAGITICA.

TENURE OF KINGS.

OUTLINE OF A PERFECT COMMONWEALTH.
DIVISIONS OF THE COMMONWEALTH.
MODE OF ESTABLISHING A COMMONWEALTH.
FAMILIAR LETTERS.

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