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| Title | The Works of Laurence Sterne ... Volume 3 of The Works of Laurence Sterne, Laurence Sterne |
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 6 Nov 2006 |
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