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A31076 Of industry, in five discourses viz. in general, in our general calling as Christians, in our particular calling as gentlemen, in our particular calling as scholars / by Isaac Barrow ... Barrow, Isaac, 1630-1677. 1693 (1693) Wing B947; ESTC R12830 66,060 193

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