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Page 111
... perfection without a possibility of ever arriving at it ; which is a hint that I do not re- member to have seen opened and improved by others who have written on this subject , though it seems to me to carry a great weight with it . How ...
... perfection without a possibility of ever arriving at it ; which is a hint that I do not re- member to have seen opened and improved by others who have written on this subject , though it seems to me to carry a great weight with it . How ...
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... perfection to perfection , after having just looked abroad into the works of her Creator , and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness , wisdom , and power , must perish at her first setting out , and in the very beginning of ...
... perfection to perfection , after having just looked abroad into the works of her Creator , and made a few discoveries of his infinite goodness , wisdom , and power , must perish at her first setting out , and in the very beginning of ...
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... perfection will be sufficient , to extinguish all envy in inferior natures , and all contempt in superior . That cherub , which now appears as a God to a human soul , knows very well that the period will come about in eternity , when ...
... perfection will be sufficient , to extinguish all envy in inferior natures , and all contempt in superior . That cherub , which now appears as a God to a human soul , knows very well that the period will come about in eternity , when ...
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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