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  • adjective Obsolete typography of public.

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  • R.L. 792 State department of health becomes the department of pvblic health,

    Acts and resolves passed by the General Court 1663

  • My readers will be as muck surprised, as I am myaelf, when, I have to inform ihem, that the Military Chronicle has been honoured with the ap - plause of the most learned men in the kingdom, — that it has received a Vote of Thanks from some Public Bodies; that the Heads of Colleges have condescended to transmit their written appmbation to an anonymous Editor; and that the first volume of the work cannot be reprinted so fast as is now the pvblic demand for it.

    The Royal Military Chronicle 1812

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