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BOSWELL'S LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON, with numerous Portraits, Views, and
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THE LIFE, PUBLIC AND DOMESTIC, OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE. By PETER
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illustrated with Portraits, Scenes of Events, and Landscape Views,
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and areer.
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ELLISTON'S LIFE and ENTERPRISES. By GEORGE RAYMOND. Illustrated with
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EXTRAORDINARY MEN: their Boyhood and Early Youth. By WILLIAM RUSSELL,
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