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<head>26 May 1808</head> | <head>26 May 1808</head> | ||
<head><gap/> the <unclear>fashion</unclear> of an eastern army</head> | <head><gap/> the <unclear>fashion</unclear> of an eastern army</head> | ||
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At length, when and how <add>and by what means</add> is unknown, the number<lb/> <unclear>became</unclear> not only < | At length, when and how <add>and by what means</add> is unknown, the number<lb/> <unclear>became</unclear> not only <unclear>dwindled</unclear> but <sic>fixt</sic>: and <add>twelve was</add> the number<lb/> that thus became <sic>fixt</sic>, in all places and in all<lb/> causes.</p> | ||
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How this <add>twelve </add> came to be the number, it is <add>would be</add> at once<lb/> vain and useless to inquire. To attach importance<lb/> to this or that number and without any reference to<lb/> use is among the well-known caprice of the <gap/><lb/>: a caprice in the formation <add>production</add> of which <gap/><lb/> has not infrequently had a <unclear>tenor</unclear>. There has been a<lb/> second number in some eyes: twelve in the same or others<lb/> so religion is <add>has been</add> averse to the <unclear>recognizing</unclear> a virtue <add><gap/></add> in these<lb/> <add>familiar</add> abstractions: <add><gap/></add> <del>of</del> Judaism has had <add>had for</add> its further <gap/><lb/> Christianity its twelve Apostles, Paganism had its twelve<lb/> gods of ten upon them, and twelve others in the lower</p> | |||
26 May 1808 the fashion of an eastern army
At length, when and how and by what means is unknown, the number
became not only dwindled but fixt: and twelve was the number
that thus became fixt, in all places and in all
causes.
How this twelve came to be the number, it is would be at once
vain and useless to inquire. To attach importance
to this or that number and without any reference to
use is among the well-known caprice of the
: a caprice in the formation production of which
has not infrequently had a tenor. There has been a
second number in some eyes: twelve in the same or others
so religion is has been averse to the recognizing a virtue in these
familiar abstractions: of Judaism has had had for its further
Christianity its twelve Apostles, Paganism had its twelve
gods of ten upon them, and twelve others in the lower
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