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_Geographical Grammar_ for us, and endeavoured to make us acquainted with the situation and history of the different countries in the world; while, from a book-society in Ayr, he procured for us Derham's _Physics and Astro-Theology_, and Ray's
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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De Cordes was intimate with all the learned men of his country and age; and his eulogy, by Naudé, prefixed to the catalogue, gives us a delightful account of an amiable and learned man living in the bosom, as it were, of books and of book-society.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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