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 This right line,—the path-way for Christians to walk in! say divines

The emblem of moral rectitude! says Cicero

The best line! say cabbage-planters—is the shortest line, says Archimedes, which can be drawn from one given point to another.

I wish your ladyships would lay this matter to heart in your next birthday suits!

What a journey!

Pray can you tell me,—that is, without anger, before I write my chapter upon straight lines—by what mistake—who told them so—or how it has come to pass, that your men of wit and genius have all along confounded this line, with the line of.