Selected quad for the lemma: world_n
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A26122
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The atheist unmasked, or, A confutation of such as deny the being of a supream deity that governs heaven and earth by unanswerable arguments deduc'd ... / by ---- a person of honour.
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Person of honour.
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1685
(1685)
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Wing A4108; ESTC R16362
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