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  1. My question concerns a word in "A Thought or Two," by Benjamin Franklin, printed at the end of "Learning to Work Under Pressure."

    The context is: "The world is certainly a great and stately volume of natural things; and may be styled hieroglyphics of a [b-t-reverse e] : but alas! How very few leaves of it do we seriously turn over?"

    The outline "b-t-reverse e" represents "better," of course; but "better" makes no sense in this context. Can this outline represent another word that makes sense here?

  2. The word is "better." Click here for the full quote and the usage of the word will be clearer.

    The passage is from the essay "Ignorance" in the book "Some Fruits of Solitude" by William Penn. This book is part of the collection of Harvard Classics.

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