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to do mission work in the poorest parishes. The following year he became minister of the Free
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Books I to V ... Translated by Rev. Thomas Smith ... books VI-XII by Peter
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paymaster and sometime bookseller of 10 Scotland Street in
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and mathematician who was instrumental in establishing India's
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broke out in 1857, Smith acted as the chaplain of the
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