Rays of Genius Collected to Enlighten the Rising Generation, Volume 1proprietor, 1806 - English literature |
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... human soul . It makes existence pleasant to us , fills the mind with entertaining views , and administers to it a ... human plant can rise ; Unpropp'd it droops , and unsupported dies . And as the human mind , like every other work of ...
... human soul . It makes existence pleasant to us , fills the mind with entertaining views , and administers to it a ... human plant can rise ; Unpropp'd it droops , and unsupported dies . And as the human mind , like every other work of ...
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Thomas Tomkins. HUMANITY . NEXT to the veneration of the Supreme Being , the love of human - kind seems to be the most promising source of gratification . Nor can there be a more glorious object in creation , than to see a man replete ...
Thomas Tomkins. HUMANITY . NEXT to the veneration of the Supreme Being , the love of human - kind seems to be the most promising source of gratification . Nor can there be a more glorious object in creation , than to see a man replete ...
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... HUMANITY . FROM DR . LANGHORNE'S EFFUSIONS OF FRIENDSHIP . Parent of virtue , if thine ear Attend not now to sorrow's cry ; If now the pity - streaming tear Should haply on thy cheek be dry ; Indulge my votive strain , O sweet Humanity ...
... HUMANITY . FROM DR . LANGHORNE'S EFFUSIONS OF FRIENDSHIP . Parent of virtue , if thine ear Attend not now to sorrow's cry ; If now the pity - streaming tear Should haply on thy cheek be dry ; Indulge my votive strain , O sweet Humanity ...
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