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OF

MEN OF LETTERS AND SCIENCE

WHO FLOURISHED IN THE

TIME OF GEORGE III.

BY

HENRY, LORD BROUGHAM, F. R. S.,

MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE, AND

OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF NAPLES,

SECOND SERIES.

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY AND HART, 126 CHESTNUT STREET.

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TO

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCE ALBERT, K. G.,

&c., &c., &c.,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED,

AS A SMALL TOKEN OF RESPECT FOR THE INTEREST WHICH

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

TAKES IN LETTERS AND THE ARTS.

JOHNSON,

ADAM SMITH,

LAVOISIER,

GIBBON,

SIR JOSEPH BANKS,

D'ALEMBERT,

CONTENTS.

ADDITIONAL NOTE ON SIR JOSEPH BANKS,

NOTE ON THE Lives of Cavendish, Watt, and

BLACK,

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