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The Church In The Way
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DR. JOHNSON censured Gwyn, the architect, for taking down a church,
which might have stood for many years, and building a new one in a more
convenient place, for no other reason but that there might be a direct
road to a new bridge. You are taking, said the doctor, a church out
of the way, that the people may go in a straight line to the
bridge.--No, sir, replied Gwyn: I am putting the church in the
way, that the people may not go out of the way.
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