Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n
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A51700
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The atheist silenced, or, The existence of a deity and his creation and government of the world demonstrated from reason, and the light of nature only, in a plain and mathematical method by axioms and theorems : with an appendix touching the most proper method of preaching the Gospel among the heathens / by J.M. ...
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J. M.
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1672
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Wing M33; ESTC R16187
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