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A35178 The taghmical art, or, The art of expounding scripture by the points, usually called accents, but are really tactical a grammatical, logical, and rhetorical instrument of interpretation in two parts ... / by Walter Cross ... Cross, Walter, M.A. 1698 (1698) Wing C7265; ESTC R1139 187,115 321

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