Sink or swim? By the author of 'Recommended to mercy', etc, Volume 1

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Page 88 - Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
Page 247 - ... remain a moral problem. It must be remembered that he was Pope. He was not merely an almost incredibly wicked man, but he claimed to be the vicar of God. Apart even from the darkest crime which stains his infamous memory, his life was a long breach of the commandments which say, thou shalt not steal ; thou shalt do no murder ; thou shalt not commit adultery ; thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Page 158 - Sabbath, from doing our pleasure on his holy day; and to call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord honourable, and to honour him, not doing our own ways, nor finding our own pleasuress nor speaking our own words.

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