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A51282 An account of virtue, or, Dr. Henry More's abridgment of morals put into English.; Enchiridion ethicum. English More, Henry, 1614-1687.; Southwell, Edward, 1671-1730. 1690 (1690) Wing M2637; ESTC R9573 136,263 290

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