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The Massachusetts Teacher, Volume 17

Education - 1864 - 704 pages
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1864 - 1224 pages
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The North British Review, Volume 41

English literature - 1864 - 546 pages
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Classical and Scientific Studies and the Great Schools of England: A Lecture ...

William Parsons Atkinson - Classical education - 1865 - 128 pages
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American Journal of Education and College Review, Volume 15

Education - 1865 - 1150 pages
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 15

Henry Barnard - Education - 1865 - 922 pages
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Annals of British Legislation: Digest of blue books, Volume 1

Leone Levi - 1865 - 584 pages
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Thirty-seventh (Forty-eighth-Fiftieth, Fifty-second, Fifty-fifth) annual report

Pennsylvania board of publ. educ, 1st sch. district - 1867 - 846 pages
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The Fortnightly, Volume 28

1877 - 900 pages
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Miscellanies, Political and Literary

Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff - Great Britain - 1878 - 378 pages
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