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Whig Examiner

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | © The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Whig Examiner, a literary and political periodical published by Addison. Five numbers appeared, Sept.–Oct. 1710.

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