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Page xvi
... . Addressing himself to the Divine Being , in a strain worthy of the theme ; he exclaims : Not content With every food of life to nourish man ; By kind illusions of the wond'ring sense Thou makest all xvi INTRODUCTORY ESSAY .
... . Addressing himself to the Divine Being , in a strain worthy of the theme ; he exclaims : Not content With every food of life to nourish man ; By kind illusions of the wond'ring sense Thou makest all xvi INTRODUCTORY ESSAY .
Page xvii
... Thou makest all nature beauty to his eye , Or music to his ear ! The pleasures of Taste are indeed more commonly distributed into those of the beauti- ful and sublime . What constitutes the one and the other has been the subject of ...
... Thou makest all nature beauty to his eye , Or music to his ear ! The pleasures of Taste are indeed more commonly distributed into those of the beauti- ful and sublime . What constitutes the one and the other has been the subject of ...
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... thou- sand . How does every thing around us bring its lesson to our minds ! Nature is the great book of God . In every page is instruction to those who will read . Morality must claim its due . Death in various shapes hovers round us ...
... thou- sand . How does every thing around us bring its lesson to our minds ! Nature is the great book of God . In every page is instruction to those who will read . Morality must claim its due . Death in various shapes hovers round us ...
Page 66
... thou inexhastible source of wonder and contemplation --- Hail thou multitudinous ocean ! whose waves chase one another down like the generations of men , and , after a mo- mentary space , are immerged for ever in ob- livion Thy ...
... thou inexhastible source of wonder and contemplation --- Hail thou multitudinous ocean ! whose waves chase one another down like the generations of men , and , after a mo- mentary space , are immerged for ever in ob- livion Thy ...
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... thou distinguishing attribute and honour of human kind ! who art not only able to imitate Nature in her graces , but ... thou taughtest us to assert the sovereignty of our nature , and to assume that empire , for which Providence ...
... thou distinguishing attribute and honour of human kind ! who art not only able to imitate Nature in her graces , but ... thou taughtest us to assert the sovereignty of our nature , and to assume that empire , for which Providence ...
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