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"I suppose it is a fact of the greatest importance to him that he and
his parishioners have souls to be saved, and that in comparison with
that fact others are immaterial."
"We all believe we have souls to be saved. Having set forth God's way
of saving them we have done all we ought to do. God's way is not
sufficient for Sinclair. He enlarges it out of his own head, and
instructs his silly, ignorant friends to do the same. He will not be
satisfied with what God and the Church tell him."
"God and the Church, according to Dr. Midleton's account, have not been
very effective in Langborough."
"They hear from me, madam, all I am commissioned to say, and if they do
not attend I cannot help it"
"I have read your paper in the Archaeological Transactions on the
history of Langborough Abbey. It excited my imagination, which is never
excited in reading ordinary histories. In your essay I am in company
with the men who actually lived in the time of Henry the Second and
Henry the Eighth. I went over the ruins again, and found them much more
beautiful after I understood something about them.
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