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The design of the compilers has been to furnish the reading community, and more especially large class of students in colleges and seminaries of learning, with a comprehensive handbook of lexicon of all branches of Humanities. A work of this kind has long been needed. The great aim of all modern systems of instruction is to present knowledge in as concise and accessible a form as possible, and bring the results of many different theories and systems into forms of ...
Poet and travel writer Bayard Taylor produced popular chronicles of his journeys at home and abroad, as well as novels and collections of poetry. After he went to the Middle East, India, China, and Japan in 1851, 1853, he published three volumes that mark his zenith as a travel writer, including The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain (1855). Bayard Taylor always considered himself native to the East, and it was with ...