Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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book_n	life_n	world_n	write_v	4,962	5	5.8081	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26218	The memoirs of the Countess of Dunois author of The lady's travels into Spain / written by her self before her retirement, by way of answer to Monsieur St. Evremont ; containing withal a modest vindication of the female sex, more frequently injur'd by imprudence and misconstruction, then defect of vertue ; made English from the original.; Mémoires de Madame la Comtesse D***. English	Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 51-1705.; J. H.; Saint-Evremond, 1613-1703.	1699 (1699)	Wing A4218; ESTC R7449	117,619	204

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