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A statement of facts, relative to the conduct of the
Reverend John Clayton, Senior, the Reverend John Clayton, Junior, and the Reverend William Clayton: the proceedings on the trial of an action brought by Benjamin Flower against the Reverend John Clayton, Junior, for defamation, with
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Constitution; with Remarks on Some of its Principal Articles; in Which Their Importance in a Political, Moral and Religious Point of View, is Illustrated; and the Necessity of a Reformation in Church and State in Great Britain,
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Politics, Religion and
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Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794–1808
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Coleridge's Imagination: Essays in Memory of Pete Laver
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