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A37244 A work for none but angels & men that is to be able to look into and to know ourselves, or a book shewing what the soule is, subsisting and having its operations without the body ... : of the imagination or common sense, the phantasie, sensative memory, passions, motion of life, the local motion, intellectual power of the soul ... Thomas Jenner has lineas composuit. Davies, John, Sir, 1569-1626.; Jenner, Thomas, fl. 1631-1656. 1658 (1658) Wing D410; ESTC R27853 22,709 36

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