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                                     THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION.
Mr. JOSEPH G. GREEN, of Upper Thames Street, London, ranks among the best
and exceeding beauty. The other objects are those of grace-
exhibitors of works in Glass, maintaining the highest claim to excellence
of material
    ful utility; Art has, however, entered into the composition of
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  ~~~~~~all these productions, and the fame of England in this im-
 and for the engraving by which so many of them are decorated-the production
of
 accomplished artists. The principal object on this page is a CHLANDELIER
of great merit portant department has been upheld by the manufacturer.
           ADAPTATIONS FROM          THE1  ANTI~QUE.*             entitled
a repeating era or event, does not turn back -to some
                           BY THE RV. CHARES BOUTEL, M.A.earlier volume and
transcribe for his present use the pages he
                                                                  had written
-there. And yet, when the fresh chapter has been
                 "HISTORY," it is said,                       
 ~~~~~added to his work, in his last expressions and sentences he sees
         HiSORY" i  issai, "repeats itself."  And the experience
of the reflected images of his former narrative. The actual words,
 the world has confirmed the truthfulness of the saying. At the indeed, are
altogether different ; so are the actors, the incidents,
 same time, however, it is well known that, like others of the same and the
places; and no less different also are both the imagery
 class, this comprehensive saying is true only in a general sense, and the
external circumstances. Still, in reality, it is an old
 and without any reference whatever either to literal exactness or story,
often told already under various aspects, that has just been
 to matters of detail. -The repetitions that are recorded in historical told
once more; and history, mutatis mutandis, has been repeating
 chronicles are the result of periodical- recurrences of great combi- itself.
 nations of events, coupled with ce-rtain general coincidences in the It
is to be particularly noted that, while thus fulfilling the
 motives and aims that influence and govern human conduct. obligations of
the Law of Repetition, the actors themselves in the
   The historian, therefore, when he Iis treating of what may be historical
drama for the most part are-probably they are alto-
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