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Os ossis & oris, or, A collection of the most remarkeable passages in a book intituled, Os ossorianum or A bone for a Bishop to pick [electronic resource] / written by a worthy minister of the vvord, John Goodwin, of Coleman street, viz. ; 1. The most grave and weighty sentences and proverbs, 2. His most meeke and charitable demeanour, 3. The most home and reverent similitudes, 4. The neatest phrases, and most queint expressions, 5. His excellency in the allegoricall use of the Militia, 6. The most concordant, and consonant passages, 7. His most modest, and mannerly behaviour towards his adversary, viz. ; the Reverend Father in God, Gr. Williams, Lord Bishop of Ossory

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