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A51181 Essays of Michael, seigneur de Montaigne in three books, with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life / new rendered into English by Charles Cotton, Esq.; Essais. English Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687. 1685 (1685) Wing M2479; ESTC R2740 998,422 2,006

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