Word: heinnecken
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...Heinnecken, Quirino, Scaliger and John Stuart Mill, though the chief place must be accorded to the great Lipsius, of whom we are told that he composed a work the day he was born, concerning which there is the immortal remark of my Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy.* There are many instances of pious precocity- such as that of the unhappy little puritan girl who (so Cotton Mather in his Magnolia tells us, and with evident approval) spent eight hours a day in a dark closet weeping and praying for the forgiveness of her sins...
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