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A78163 Heroick education, or Choice maximes and instructions, for the most sure and facile training up of youth, in the ways of eminent learning, and vertues. A treatise very necessary for all men; but most especially for such as undertake the charge, to govern the young nobility and gentry. In two books, together with a short appendix. / By I.B. Gent. I. B., Gent. 1657 (1657) Wing B83; Thomason E1634_2; ESTC R22321 45,520 155

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