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A28378 Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into publick light severall pieces of the works, civil, historical, philosophical, & theological, hitherto sleeping, of the Right Honourable Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount Saint Alban according to the best corrected coppies : together with His Lordships life / by William Rawley ... Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.; Rawley, William, 1588?-1667. 1657 (1657) Wing B319; ESTC R17601 372,122 441

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