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| Title | Roll of a tennis ball, through the moral world, a ser. of contemplations, by a solitary traveller [J. Stewart]. |
| Author | John Stewart |
| Published | 1812 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 8 Jun 2006 |
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