ch
lay beyond the reach of their dull imaginations, and count life well
spent in shaping some faint image of it in the actual world.

THE END

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FOOTNOTES:

[45] Family affection in the eighteenth century may have been stronger
than in the nineteenth; but Hume's bachelor inexperience can surely
alone explain his strange account of the suppositions of the marriage
law of that day, and their effects. The law certainly abolished all
division of possessions, but it did so by making the husband sole
proprietor.

[46] Ben Jonson's _Cynthia's Revels_, act i.

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