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Page 40
... present . To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders , nor often gentlemen , thought themselves disgraced by ignorance . The women house supplied with a closet of knowledge . Those , indeed , who professed learning ...
... present . To read was not then a general amusement ; neither traders , nor often gentlemen , thought themselves disgraced by ignorance . The women house supplied with a closet of knowledge . Those , indeed , who professed learning ...
Page 44
... present , and promised some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but none of them had any children , except her son Caleb and her daughter Elizabeth ...
... present , and promised some establishment , but died soon after . Queen Caroline sent her fifty guineas . She had seven sons and three daughters ; but none of them had any children , except her son Caleb and her daughter Elizabeth ...
Page 49
... how hope of pardon may be ob- tained by penitence and prayer . A state of in- nocence we can only conceive , if indeed , in our present misery , it be possible to conceive it ; but under Mr. Henry Bright , * from whose care he MILTON . 49.
... how hope of pardon may be ob- tained by penitence and prayer . A state of in- nocence we can only conceive , if indeed , in our present misery , it be possible to conceive it ; but under Mr. Henry Bright , * from whose care he MILTON . 49.
Page 56
... love to expect ; and , when expectation is disappointed or gratified , we want to be again expecting . For this impatience of the present , whoever would please must make who could eat them at all other times of the 56 BUTLER .
... love to expect ; and , when expectation is disappointed or gratified , we want to be again expecting . For this impatience of the present , whoever would please must make who could eat them at all other times of the 56 BUTLER .
Page 57
... present time , to image the book from books may be useful , but can scarcely tumult of absurdity , and clamour of contradic- be great . Butler had not suffered life to glide tion , which perplexed doctrine , disordered prac- beside him ...
... present time , to image the book from books may be useful , but can scarcely tumult of absurdity , and clamour of contradic- be great . Butler had not suffered life to glide tion , which perplexed doctrine , disordered prac- beside him ...
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