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    Elegant extracts: or useful and entertaining pieces of poetry , selected for the improvement of youth, In Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing: and in the Conduct of Life; being similar in design to Elegant extracts in prose.

    | Date: 1789
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    Elegant extracts: or useful and entertaining pieces of poetry , selected for the improvement of youth, In Speaking, Reading, Thinking, Composing; and in the Conduct of Life; being similar in design to Elegant extracts in prose.

    | Date: [1789?]
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    The British prose miscellany

    | Date: [1799?]
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    Elegant extracts: or, useful and entertaining pieces of poetry , selected for the improvement of young persons: being similar in design to Elegant extracts in prose.

    | Date: 1796
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    Elegant extracts: or useful and entertaining passages in prose selected for the improvement of scholars at Classical & other Schools in the art of speaking, in reading, thinking, composing; and in the conduct of life.

    | Date: [1790?]
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