Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne: In Three Books with Marginal Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator,Daniel Brown, J. Nicholson, R. Wellington, B. Tooke, B. Barker, G. Strahan, R. Smith, and G. Harris., 1711 |
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