The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue: Condensed from the Scriptures of Eminent Cosmians, Pantheists and Physiphilanthropists, of Various Ages and Climes ...G. Vale, 1849 - Ethics |
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... once was sea ; Seas , in their turn , retreating from the shore , Make solid land , what ocean was before ; And far from strands are shells of fishes found , And rusty anchors fix'd on mountain ground : And what were fields before , now ...
... once was sea ; Seas , in their turn , retreating from the shore , Make solid land , what ocean was before ; And far from strands are shells of fishes found , And rusty anchors fix'd on mountain ground : And what were fields before , now ...
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... once was sea ; Seas , in their turn , retreating from the shore , Make solid land , what ocean was before ; And far from strands are shells of fishes found , And rusty anchors fix'd on mountain ground : And what were fields before , now ...
... once was sea ; Seas , in their turn , retreating from the shore , Make solid land , what ocean was before ; And far from strands are shells of fishes found , And rusty anchors fix'd on mountain ground : And what were fields before , now ...
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... once prov'd , it gives an open ways ba To Nature's secrets , and we walk in day . If nothing can be fertile , what law binds All beings still to generate their own kinds ? Why do not all things variously proceed From every thing ? what ...
... once prov'd , it gives an open ways ba To Nature's secrets , and we walk in day . If nothing can be fertile , what law binds All beings still to generate their own kinds ? Why do not all things variously proceed From every thing ? what ...
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... once combin'd as now ; Yet now who minds , who knows his former state ? The interim of death , the hand of fate , Or stopt the seeds , or made them all commence Such motions , as destroy'd the former sense . He that is miserable , must ...
... once combin'd as now ; Yet now who minds , who knows his former state ? The interim of death , the hand of fate , Or stopt the seeds , or made them all commence Such motions , as destroy'd the former sense . He that is miserable , must ...
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... sleep'st and dream'st the most of life away : Thy night is full as rational as thy day ; Still vext with cares , who never understood The principles of ill , nor use of good . Our life must once have end , in vain we 20 LUCRETIUS.
... sleep'st and dream'st the most of life away : Thy night is full as rational as thy day ; Still vext with cares , who never understood The principles of ill , nor use of good . Our life must once have end , in vain we 20 LUCRETIUS.
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Page 107 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils, with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Page 126 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind, as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 147 - there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.