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    The historical preceptor or, a collection of entertaining and instructive passages, selected from the works of the best historians. For the Use of Schools. By the editor of the polite and poetical preceptors.

    | Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]
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    The last will and testament of the late Rt. Hon. Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. Extracted from the registry of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. To which is added, a copy of an original letter from his Lordship to a noble peer, giving his reasons for leaving the kingdom in March 1715.

    Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke | Date: M.DCC.LII. [1752]
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    Two dialogues , concerning the manner of writing history. From the French of Abb�e de Mably.

    Mably, abb�e de, 1709-1785. | Date: M.DCC.LXXXIII. [1783]
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    Geography and history. Selected by a lady, for the use of her own children

    Lady | Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]
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    Heads of a course of lectures on history , from the earliest accounts to the present time. By the Reverend W. Rutherford, D.D. For the use of his academy, at Uxbridge.

    Rutherford, William, 1745 or 6-1820. | Date: 1791
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