Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), December 1820, Edition 1 of 1, Page 727

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- Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1820, page 727, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2495/page/39/

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