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I once told Saulsbury, when he was discoursing in that way, that he must be descended from Adam by some wife he had before Eve, who had nothing to do with the fall.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “I once told Saulsbury, when he was discoursing in that way, that he must be descended from Adam by some wife he had…”
Editor's note · Context
Hoar humorously suggested that a colleague's behavior was so peculiar it might indicate a lineage from a pre-Eve wife.
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