. The autobiography of Phineas Pett. Ph 3,5 u -o ?« 00 £? So I g _ flS -I H MlO NO « l-l — a vo^o •3 H H ;p • ? fl ?^ S 8 >fc *3 H t*-+S § S ^ lO VO o o AQ •SS *? — STvO VO « M w o . .I—irfsna ?g H M -bvO<0§ w «. HI .«« lii INTRODUCTION 3.—Phineas Pett. From the care that had been taken to providefor his education, and from the fact that it wasonly at the instant persuasion of hisEducation, mother that he was * contented to beapprenticed as a shipwright, it may beinferred that Phineas had been destined forthe Church or the Law, and that Peter Pett didnot propose that his son should follo
. The autobiography of Phineas Pett. Ph 3,5 u -o ?« 00 £? So I g _ flS -I H MlO NO « l-l — a vo^o •3 H H ;p • ? fl ?^ S 8 >fc *3 H t*-+S § S ^ lO VO o o AQ •SS *? — STvO VO « M w o . .I—irfsna ?g H M -bvO<0§ w «. HI .«« lii INTRODUCTION 3.—Phineas Pett. From the care that had been taken to providefor his education, and from the fact that it wasonly at the instant persuasion of hisEducation, mother that he was * contented to beapprenticed as a shipwright, it may beinferred that Phineas had been destined forthe Church or the Law, and that Peter Pett didnot propose that his son should follow in hisown footsteps. The pecuharity ^ of the namechosen for him (which no doubt refers, not tothe disobedient son of Eli, but to * Phinehas,the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,who received * the covenant of an everlastingpriesthood) * gives rise to the surmise that hisparents had intended him for the Church, butwhatever the intention may have been, it wascertainly abandoned on the death of his father. Phineas does not seem to have profited greatlyfrom his studies at Cambridge. He was hardly amaster of English ; possibly he had a good know-ledge of Latin, for the influence of the Latinidiom is
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