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 readers who may wish to have a fair understanding of the text of 

 any work in ordinary English literature. Of the terms and expres- 

 sions used some, he adds, are more or less technical and scientific ; 

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 must be styled miscellaneous, and some belong to other languages 

 than our own. In explaining words no attempt has been made to 

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