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| Title | A Life of Edmund Burke Bohn's standard library |
| Author | Sir James Prior |
| Publisher | G. Bell & Sons, 1891 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 545 pages |
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