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A50634 Moral gallantry a discourse, wherein the author endeavours to prove, that point of honour (abstracting from all other tyes) obliges men to be vertuous and that there is nothing so mean (or unworthy of a gentleman) as vice / by Sir George Mackenzie. Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691. 1667 (1667) Wing M175; ESTC R19878 41,119 141

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