The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays, Volume 4C. Dilly, 1788 - Conduct of life |
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... natural re- ligion had enlightened mankind before revelation took place 176 - CXIV . Obfervations upon thefe feveral inftances of right reafon in the heathen world ; modes of reafoning , by which natural religion might deduce the ...
... natural re- ligion had enlightened mankind before revelation took place 176 - CXIV . Obfervations upon thefe feveral inftances of right reafon in the heathen world ; modes of reafoning , by which natural religion might deduce the ...
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... nature for a sports- man's game : When I entered upon his orna- mented demefne , nothing could be more en- chanting than the scenery ; the ground was finely fhaped into hill and vale ; the horizon every where bold and romantic , and the ...
... nature for a sports- man's game : When I entered upon his orna- mented demefne , nothing could be more en- chanting than the scenery ; the ground was finely fhaped into hill and vale ; the horizon every where bold and romantic , and the ...
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... nature in " her faireft forms ! Oh ! that I could plant the " delightful author of The Task in this very spot ! Perhaps , whilft his eye - in a fine phrenfy roll- ing - glanced over this enchanting prospect , " he might burft forth into ...
... nature in " her faireft forms ! Oh ! that I could plant the " delightful author of The Task in this very spot ! Perhaps , whilft his eye - in a fine phrenfy roll- ing - glanced over this enchanting prospect , " he might burft forth into ...
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... Nature for the fons of men Better provided than this happy ifle ? Mark ! how he's girded by her watery zone , Whilft all the neighb'ring continent is trench'd And furrow'd with the ghastly seams of war : Barriers and forts and arm'd ...
... Nature for the fons of men Better provided than this happy ifle ? Mark ! how he's girded by her watery zone , Whilft all the neighb'ring continent is trench'd And furrow'd with the ghastly seams of war : Barriers and forts and arm'd ...
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... nature falls before them : Open , all quarters elfe , and blow upon me , But bar that gate , O regent of the winds ! It gives the food that melancholy doats on , The quick'ner that provokes the flanderer's spleen , Makes green the eye ...
... nature falls before them : Open , all quarters elfe , and blow upon me , But bar that gate , O regent of the winds ! It gives the food that melancholy doats on , The quick'ner that provokes the flanderer's spleen , Makes green the eye ...
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