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| Title | A sketch of the life and times of ... Sydney Smith |
| Author | Stuart Johnson Reid |
| Publisher | Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Apr 17, 2007 |
| Length | 409 pages |
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