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THE MIDDLE KINGDOM.

A Survey Of the Geography. Government Literature
Social Life Arts and History Of the Chinese Empire and us
Inhabitants With illustrations and now map OF the En-
pfe BY 5 Wells Williams LID. Professor OF the chinese
Language and Literature Yale College author Tonic
and syllable Dictionaries Chinese language 2Yos
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TUE DOCTRINE OF SACRED SCRIPTURE.
Critical Historical Dogmatc Inquiry into the Origin
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