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Commonplace book containing extracts copied from accounts, books and lectures

c.1725-1775

Includes commercial accounts (mostly related to the shipping of commodities such as wheat); copies of contracts; statistical extracts from the Annual Register; and notes on various books including Tho...

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Miscellany notebook, containing extracts from Latin writings, mainly classical, notes on rhetoric and grammar, and translations from Aristotle

15--

Contents: (1) Notes on rhetoric and Latin grammar; (2) Quotations from classical authors, summaries of works of Aristotle, etc., namely: f.4, 'Eloquentia nihil aliud nisi dicendi prudentia', etc; f.13...

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