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24.B

enlarge on Hookers "thorn in
the flesh" - his sharp tongued &
scatter brained wife, who did
the good bishop the compliment
of remarrying, within 3 months
of his death - but I am
warned that moralizing on
such a subject is safe,
even for one whose preaching
and whose practice is fairly consistant.

Hooker's shelf neighbour
is St Augustine's - "the City of
God", englished by J. H. - 1610.
his chief work, a labour of
13 years. Millman says "it
is at once the funeral oration
of the ancient society, and the
gratulatory panegyric on the
birth of the new" Augustine
recognizes the nobleness and
greatness of old Rome while

24.B