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Dissertation on language in general, more particularly on the beauties and defects of the English language, with remarks on the rise and progress of the latter; and a short account of the earliest poets, and the ancient state of the British stage

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Dissertation on language in general, more particularly on the beauties and defects of the English language, with remarks on the rise and progress of the latter; and a short account of the earliest poets, and the ancient state of the British stage
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Shelfmark	ABS.1.90.227(3)
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record
Attribution and copyright:	Public Domain - This work is free of known copyright restrictions. For details visit our copyright page. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Books
Dates / events:	1805 [Date published]
Subject / content:	Language (general communication) English (language)
Person / organisation:	Parsons and Galignani [Publisher] Kett, Henry, 1761-1825 [Author]
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