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| Title | The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift: Historical writings Bohn's standard library Volume 10 of The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Sir Frederick Richard Falkiner |
| Author | Jonathan Swift |
| Editor | Temple Scott |
| Contributor | William Edward Hartpole Lecky |
| Publisher | G. Bell, 1902 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 14 Nov 2006 |
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