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A43775 Religio jurisprudentis, or, The lawyer's advice to his son in counsels, essays, and other miscellanies, calculated chiefly to prevent the miscarriages of youth, and for the Orthodox establishment of their morals in years of maturity / per Philanthropum. Hildesley, Mark. 1685 (1685) Wing H1980; ESTC R21640 74,803 194

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