tended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they existed in the English and other c
of these laws or customs was lacking in that remote
ifest and indisputable; that the Deity ought to make that selection, then, was likewise manifest and indisputable; consequently, that He does make it, as claimed, was an unavoidable deduction. I mean, until the author of this book encountered the Pompadour, and Lady Castlemaine, and some other executive heads of that kind; these wer
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