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Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader , that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted , as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the ...
Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader , that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted , as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the ...
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| Title | Lives of Sacred Poets, Volume 2 Lives of Sacred Poets, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education |
| Author | Robert Aris Willmott |
| Contributor | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education |
| Publisher | J.W. Parker, 1838 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | Dec 10, 2007 |
| Length | 363 pages |
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