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English lexicographer (1813–1893)
Also known as: Sir William Smith, William George Smith, Уильям Смит, ويليام سميث, ウィリアム・スミス, 威廉·史密夫
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- THE NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY
- Indebted as Lord Chom (2006)
- A copius and critical English-Latin dictionary
- Longinus On the Sublime; the Greek text edited after the Paris manuscript, with introduction, translation, facsimiles and appendices, by W. Rhys Roberts (1838)
- Qui non credit condemnabitur, 1625 (1973)