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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT NOTE, SIGNED
discussing commentary by Goëthe - following Chateaubriand and other writers - on the contrasting place of marriage under Protestantism and Roman Catholicism ("...I appeal to the Heads, Hearts, and Lives, of the inhabitants of Italy, Sicily, etc compared with those of Scotland, England, Holland, Sweden [...] the Rabbin's fable of Cain may be truly applied to Popery - 'the very grass turns black beneath its tread'..."), 1 page, 8vo, written on the inside lower cover of a blue paper wrapper, with a later note on the verso ("...Remarks on a passage in Goëthe's works by S.T. Coleridge..."), some wear and dust-staining
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