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EDINBURGH ACADEMY GREEK RUDIMENTS. SECOND EDITION. 12mo. 4s. bound.

The strict attention which, in this edition, has been applied to the condensation of the rules, and the valuable suggestions with which the compiler has been favoured since the first appearance of the work, induce him to hope that he has now, in some measure, attained his original object of combining within reasonable limits the requisites of a first and second Greek grammar.

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