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What tricks would not these monks have played, if they had possessed the secret of electricity?
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A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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John Jortin
Born:
October 23, 1698
Died:
September 5, 1770
(aged 71)
Bio:
John Jortin was an English church historian.
Known for:
Sermons on Different Subjects
Remarks on Ecclesiastical History (1751)
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