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A THIRD SERIES OF PLAIN SERMONS, addressed to a Country Congregation. By the late REV. EDWARD BLENCOWE, Curate of Teversal, Notts, and formerly Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. ALSO, A NEW EDITION OF THE FIRST SERIES, and A SECOND EDITION OF THE SECOND SERIES, price 7s. 6d. each. "Their style is simple; the sentences are not artfully constructed; and there is an utter absence of all attempt at rhetoric. The language is plain Saxon language, from which 'the men on the wall' can easily gather what it most concerns them to know."--_Theologian._ Also, 2 vols. 12mo., sold separately, 8s. each, SERMONS. By the REV. ALFRED GATTY, M.A., Vicar of Ecclesfield. "Sermons of a high and solid character--earnest and affectionate."--_Theologian._ "Plain and practical, but close and scholarly discourses."--_Spectator._ London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street. {256} * * * * * [Illustration] COMMITTEE FOR THE REPAIR OF THE TOMB OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER. JOHN BRUCE, Esq., Treas. S.A. J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq., V.P.S.A. PETER CUNNINGHAM, Esq., F.S.A. WILLIAM RICHARD DRAKE, Esq., F.S.A. THOMAS W. KING, Esq., F.S.A. SIR FREDERICK MADDEN, K.H. JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS, Esq., F.S.A. HENRY SHAW, Esq., F.S.A. SAMUEL SHEPHERD, Esq., F.S.A. WILLIAM J. THOMS, Esq., F.S.A. The Tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer in Westminster Abbey is fast mouldering into irretrievable decay. A sum of One Hundred Pounds will effect a perfect repair. The Committee have not thought it right to fix any limit to the contribution; they themselves have opened the list with a subscription from each of them of Five Shillings; but they will be ready to receive any amount, more or less, which those who value poetry and honour Chaucer may be kind enough to remit to them. Subscriptions have been received from the Earls of Carlisle, Ellesmere, and Shaftesbury, Viscounts Strangford and Mahon, Pres. Soc. Antiq., The Lords Braybrooke and Londesborough, and many other noblemen and gentlemen. Subscriptions are received by all the members of the Committee, and at the Union Bank, Pall Mall East. Post-office orders may be made payable at the Charing Cross Office, to William Richard Drake, Esq., the Treasurer, 46. Parliament Street, or William J. Thomas, Esq., Hon. Sec., 25. Holy-Well Street, Millbank. * * * * * Now ready, the Second Edition, pri
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