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<p>It is trite it was it <gap/><lb/>to be discarded unheard mistaken<lb/>we have better evidence of this civil effect<lb/>of any institution this is can possibly<lb/>have of it<lb/></p><p>There is not a single text for it.<lb/></p> <del><gap/></del>To justify this act <del>to</del> in short to justify<lb/>the excluding of people [from amusement as well as<lb/>labour] from every occupation pleasurable as<lb/>well as profitable <add>laborious useful</add> on a sunday two propositions<lb/>must be taken for granted: the one is that amusement<lb/>which is innocent every six days [in the week]<lb/>changes its nature [regularly] and becomes mischievous<lb/>every seventh: the other is, that idleness which <del>all<lb/>the rest of the</del> in its very nature is confessedly <add>proverbially</add><lb/>the root of all evil, is at the same time the<lb/>support of holiness. But these are propositions<lb/>to neither of which I must own do I know how <lb/><note>to</note><pb/> | |||
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Indirect Legislation
It is trite it was it
to be discarded unheard mistaken
we have better evidence of this civil effect
of any institution this is can possibly
have of it
There is not a single text for it.
To justify this act to in short to justify
the excluding of people [from amusement as well as
labour] from every occupation pleasurable as
well as profitable laborious useful on a sunday two propositions
must be taken for granted: the one is that amusement
which is innocent every six days [in the week]
changes its nature [regularly] and becomes mischievous
every seventh: the other is, that idleness which all
the rest of the in its very nature is confessedly proverbially
the root of all evil, is at the same time the
support of holiness. But these are propositions
to neither of which I must own do I know how
to
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