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six is not far from sixty. This occurs in the second volume[1], which is by no means so amusing as the first, . . less from any decay of faculties in the old Franciscan, than because his friends' stock of questions was nearly exhausted. Some of them, however, are sufficiently curious. Has any one entered the kingdom of Heaven, and afterwards been turned out of it? Would it not have been a greater work of power for God to have created Adam from nothing, than to have made him of clay? Why did God make woman, when he knew that she would be the occasion of the fall? May not Eve be called Adam's daughter, seeing that she was made out of him? Which sinned the most, Adam or Eve? Would there have been any distinction
- ↑ The second volume also falls far short of the first in typographical beauty, though it has a noble L in the title page, after the fashion of that which is represented in Mr. Dibdin's.
