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Page 49
... single corner of the field of science ; I took the whole region into my view , and wished it of yet greater extent . But no man's power can be equal to his will . I was forced to proceed by slow degrees , and to purchase what chance or ...
... single corner of the field of science ; I took the whole region into my view , and wished it of yet greater extent . But no man's power can be equal to his will . I was forced to proceed by slow degrees , and to purchase what chance or ...
Page 74
... single verse . There are two lines in this passage more remark- ably unharmonious : -This delicious place , For us too large ; where thy abundance wants Partakers , and uncropp'd falls to the ground . Here the third pair of syllables in ...
... single verse . There are two lines in this passage more remark- ably unharmonious : -This delicious place , For us too large ; where thy abundance wants Partakers , and uncropp'd falls to the ground . Here the third pair of syllables in ...
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... single sentiment of moral or religious truth , a single image of life or nature would have been cheaply lost for a thousand echoes of the cadence to the sense ; and he who had undertaken to vindicate the ways of God to man might have ...
... single sentiment of moral or religious truth , a single image of life or nature would have been cheaply lost for a thousand echoes of the cadence to the sense ; and he who had undertaken to vindicate the ways of God to man might have ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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