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Page 67 - Jewish disabilities, and the other a bill to transfer the government of India from the East India Company to the crown.
Page 62 - By which last is meant — not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination ; bringing together from the four winds, like the angel of the resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.
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