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MINOR NOTES:--Whipping a Lady--Mother of Thirty Children--"Ought" and "Aught"--Walton--Salutations-- Good Times for Equity Suitors--The Emperor of Russia and the Order of the Garter 419
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GILES' HISTORY of the ANCIENT BRITONS, from the Earliest Period to the Invasion of the Saxons, compiled from the Original Authorities. 2 vols. 8vo. Second Edition, cloth, 12s.; pub. at 1l. 10s. G. Willis, 1854.
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