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England States except Rhode Island, and from the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. Also from the Island of
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Philadelphia by negotiating with his jailors to borrow books from the so-called circulating library recently established by
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Morris's second wife. It was at this point in Morris's life that he accepted that he would never realize his early dream of becoming a minister.
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of following custom blindly rather than reason; and from Locke, the novel idea that the
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1117:. Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Co.
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1139:. Morris: Yale University Press.
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