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heaven_n earth_n high_a place_n 6,761 5 4.5017 4 true
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A29861 Pseudodoxia epidemica, or, Enquiries into very many received tenents and commonly presumed truths by Thomas Browne. Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. 1646 (1646) Wing B5159; ESTC R1093 377,301 406

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