The Goodliffe Family of Nottingham

The Story of My Life - The original, handwritten version of the Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe

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sending him to prison, meeting when he had returned from prison he said Stephen you have never been to College, why do you pretend to teach the people? You have never been taught Logic, and can’t teach others. Stephen said he had been taught of Christ, and his was the best College, and as to Logic, if the parson would tell him what he meant by Logic, he perhaps should know something about it? Well Stephen, logic is the art of reasoning. One part of logic consists of drawing inferences, for instance you will persist in holding meetings and breaking the law. I have told you, you are stupid. Now an ass is stupid so you are an ass. Oh said Stephen if that is logic, I can understand that! It is said the Devil is black, the Parson is black, he must be a devil. About the time Stephen Curtis was imprisoned in Lincoln Jail

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