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| Title | A Short System of Polite Learning: Being an Epitome of the Arts and Sciences : for the Use of Schools |
| Author | Daniel Jaudon |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Johnson & Warner, 1814 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Oct 2005 |
| Length | 214 pages |
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