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Page 99
... truth , And truth disclaiming both . And thus they spend The little wick of life's poor fhallow lamp , In playing tricks with nature , giving laws To diftant worlds and trifling in their own . Is't not a pity now that tickling rheums ...
... truth , And truth disclaiming both . And thus they spend The little wick of life's poor fhallow lamp , In playing tricks with nature , giving laws To diftant worlds and trifling in their own . Is't not a pity now that tickling rheums ...
Page 105
... truth . But what is truth ? ' twas Pilate's question put To truth itself , that deign'd him no reply . And wherefore ? will not God impart his light To them that afk it ? -Freely - ' tis his joy , His glory , and his nature to impart ...
... truth . But what is truth ? ' twas Pilate's question put To truth itself , that deign'd him no reply . And wherefore ? will not God impart his light To them that afk it ? -Freely - ' tis his joy , His glory , and his nature to impart ...
Page 218
... truth , To walk with God , to be divinely free , To foar , and to anticipate the skies . Yet few remember them . They lived unknown Till perfecution dragg'd them into fame And chased them up to heaven . Their ashes flew -No marble tells ...
... truth , To walk with God , to be divinely free , To foar , and to anticipate the skies . Yet few remember them . They lived unknown Till perfecution dragg'd them into fame And chased them up to heaven . Their ashes flew -No marble tells ...
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