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24.A

Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity comes next,
Printed 1638 - written 1594. - A
monumental anti-puritan work, praised
not only by Bishops, but by
men as far apart as Pope
Clement 8th, and Kings James
1st & 2nd. Hallam compares it -
with advantage - to Cicero's De
Legibus, and the divinity men
of today in Trinity College and
elsewhere I understand, use it as a textbook.

Bishop Hooker the ecclesiastic for Bacon the public Lawyer and Wm Shkr.,
the jovial actor dramatist cotemporaries although in such
different walks in life, developed,
fused, and made plastic
our mother tongue, which at
their death was for us crystalized
and made classic in
King James (the authorized) version
of the Bible.

One is tempted to

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