THE

AMERICAN ECLECTIC:

OR

Selections from the Periodical Literature of all
Foreign Countries.

CONDUCTED

BY ABSALOM PETERS, D. D., AND SELAH B. TREAT,
Editors of the American Biblical Repository,

AIDED BY A NUMBER OF LITERARY AND PROFESSIONAL GENTLEMEN,

VOLUME II.

JULY, SEPTEMBER AND NOVEMBER, 1841.

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1841.

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