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A34173 The Compleat politician, or, Policy put in practise wherein the principles of policy are laid open to the view of all, and the practises of it by the ancients discovered to these latter times : illustrated with many excellent rules both divine and mortall : a work usefull for these times. 1656 (1656) Wing C5651; ESTC R29674 70,602 324

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