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RAWNSLEY, Rev. R. D. B.—A Course of Sermons for the Sundays and other Chief Days of the Christian Year: to which are added a few on Special Subjects. By R. Drummond B. Rawnsley, M.A. late Fellow of Magdalen College, and Rector of Halton Holgate, Spilsby, Lincolnshire. Crown 8vo. cloth, 9s.
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