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A28452 The academie of eloquence containing a compleat English rhetorique, exemplified with common-places and formes digested into an easie and methodical way to speak and write fluently according to the mode of the present times : together with letters both amorous and moral upon emergent occasions / by Tho. Blount, Gent. Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679. 1654 (1654) Wing B3321; ESTC R15301 117,120 245

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