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176 return with him to possess the earth for that time; at the which, the grand enemy shall be loosed, and attack them; but be repulsed and conquered.

On adopting this persuasion, they neither married, nor considered themselves as bound by any earthly tie, or having any separate property. To live a holy life, to be careless of the morrow; and, if they work for others, to refuse wages, or any other consideration, doing it merely for the purpose of promulgating their opinions, were the principles of this harmless sect; which was soon greatly reduced in number. New Biog. Dict.

well versed in the sciences, and wrote perfectly well in Latin. Many of her letters to Vendela Skytte, another learned Swedish lady, are in that language. F. C. &c.

Wotton, in his Reflections on antient and modern Learning, assures us, that no age was so productive of learned women as the sixteenth century. Speaking of the flourishing condition learning was in at that time, he says, "it was so very modish, that the fair sex seemed to believe the Greek and Latin added to their charms;