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  • What Lysander observes above is very true: "non enim dissimulanda (says Gale) monasteriorum subversio, quæ brevi spatio subsecuta est -- libros omnes dispersit et BOSTONI providam diligentiam, maxima ex parte, inutilem reddidit."

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

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