No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an __ppointment_) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?
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what secular avocation on earth was there for a young man (whose friends could not get him an __ppointment_) which was at once gentlemanly, lucrative, and to be followed without special knowledge?
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