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MS Cotton Vitellius A XV
129 (132) a to 198 (201) b of the British Museum MS Cotton Vitellius A. XV.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

MS Cotton Vitellius A xv
With the so-called Paraphrase of Cædmon he is, of course, familiar; but his knowledge of Beowulf and Judith is derived from the unique, and at that time (1805) unpublished, MS., Cotton Vitellius A. xv.
— from The Translations of Beowulf: A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Metaphysics Chapters V and XVII
CHAPTER VIII, sections 30-32. Read, in the "System of Metaphysics," Chapters V and XVII, "The Self or Knower" and "The Atomic Self."
— from An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

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