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A59467 The great law of nature, or, Self-preservation examined, asserted and vindicated from Mr. Hobbes his abuses in a small discourse, part moral, part political and part religious. Shafte, J. 1673 (1673) Wing S2888; ESTC R21245 35,879 106

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