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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Samuel Bailey (1791–1870)

Bailey, Samuel. An English writer on philosophy and political economy; born at Sheffield, 1791; died there, Jan. 18, 1870. Besides works on political economy, he wrote: ‘On the Formation and Publication of Opinions’ (3d ed. 1831); ‘The Pursuit of Truth and the Progress of Knowledge’ (2d ed. 1844); ‘Letters from an Egyptian Kafir in Search of Religion’ (1837, anonymously); ‘Maro, or Poetic Sensibility’ (1846, anonymously); ‘Theory of Reasoning’ (2d ed. 1852); ‘Philosophy of the Human Mind’ (three series, 1855, 1858, 1863); ‘The Received Text of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Writings’ (2 vols., 1861–62); etc.