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External links
Lessons for Children (http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/AnaServer?hockliffe+87209+hoccview.anv) at the
Hockliffe Collection
Barbauld, Anna Letitia (1814). Lessons for children from three to four years old (http://books.google.com/
books?id=jsMqAAAAYAAJ). J. Cumming. Missing pages 110.

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