Versos English Richard Francis Burton He holds with the Patriarchs of Hebrew Holy Writ, that the

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He holds with the Patriarchs of Hebrew Holy Writ, that the

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He holds with the Patriarchs of Hebrew Holy Writ, that the present life is all-sufficient for an intellectual (not a sentimental) being; and, therefore, that there is no want of a Heaven or a Hell. With far more contradiction the Western poet sings:—

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self-place; but when we are in hell, And where hell is there must we ever be, And, to be short, when all this world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell which are not heaven.