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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1835, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2645/page/32/
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