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| Title | Lord Bacon and Sir Walter Raleigh |
| Author | Macvey Napier |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1853 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 13 Aug 2007 |
| Length | 273 pages |
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