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| Title | The Edinburgh Review, Volume 48; Volume 82 Early British periodicals |
| Contributor | Sydney Smith |
| Publisher | A. and C. Black, 1845 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Sep 2007 |
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