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I hold in my hand a burial service by Austin
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The work of the Fleet Street House was divided into three business departments. In 1856 these were
Publishing, under Frederick Farrah; the News Agency, under Thomas Wilks; and Printing, under John Watts. Holyoake was the Director, and his brother Austin, secretary and general assistant...The
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As I have stated before, my mind being free from any doubts on these bewildering matters of speculation, I have experienced for twenty years the most perfect mental repose; and now I find that the near approach of death, the 'grim King of
Terrors,' gives me not the slightest
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in 1872, 'one of those quiet, unostentatious workers who are the real bone and sinew of the
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Holyoake's first wife, Lucy
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movement, Holyoake worked for various radical papers as a printer in
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say, is far up above, / But mine is on earth, and I call it Love."
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Heterodox London; or, Phases of free thought in the metropolis
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Thoughts on Atheism, or, Can Man by Searching Find out God?
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