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Page 145
... nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying , her rash hand in evil hour Forth - reaching to the fruit , she pluck'd , she eat : Earth felt the wound , and Nature from her seat Sighing , through all her works ...
... nature as disturbed upon Eve's eating the forbidden fruit : So saying , her rash hand in evil hour Forth - reaching to the fruit , she pluck'd , she eat : Earth felt the wound , and Nature from her seat Sighing , through all her works ...
Page 169
... nature , and which are woven with great beauty into the body of the fable . Of this kind is that passage in the present book , where , describing sin as marching through the works of nature , he adds , ....... Behind her Death , Close ...
... nature , and which are woven with great beauty into the body of the fable . Of this kind is that passage in the present book , where , describing sin as marching through the works of nature , he adds , ....... Behind her Death , Close ...
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... nature . Those who are versed in phi- losophy may still carry this consideration higher , by observing that if matter had appeared to us endowed only with those real qualities which it actually posses- ses , it would have made but a ...
... nature . Those who are versed in phi- losophy may still carry this consideration higher , by observing that if matter had appeared to us endowed only with those real qualities which it actually posses- ses , it would have made but a ...
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