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The Crusaders in their eagerness to get poss

The Holy Land to the Crusaders who were to paid
so dear for the acquisition of it turned out like
Punch and his merry family to the nobleman
who bought them. His Lordship thought he had
purchased made an acquisition of an inexhaustible store of wit and
merriment upon a small scale, in the purchase
of their facetious company. But Punch no sooner
had he quitted the house of his former for that
master for that of a new one grew sulky and
would never after open his mouth. So it was
in Palestine. The slugs remained: but the company
had quitted it for many ages. Miracles were no
more to be seen on the one stage, thence wit and humour were on the other.

It may seem rather surprizing at first sight
that no miracles should have been acted we should hear of no miracles in the
Holy Land at the time of the Crusades: considering
how common such events were had been in that
place in former times, and were even at that time
as well as or at least but little before and after that time in other places.

This may be ac Two considerations may help to
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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	078	Info in main headings field	miscellanea
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	56898
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