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LIFE OF WILLIAM, EARL OF SHELBURNE,
AFTERWARDS FIRST MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.
With Extracts from his Papers and Correspondence. By Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice. In Three Vols. 8vo. Vol. I. 1737 -
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