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Page xi
... reason still — a reason , we grant , probably stirred by circumstances into action , for renouncing the empty arena of this world's honours and wealth , and devoting themselves to a higher and nobler purpose . They all saw into the hol ...
... reason still — a reason , we grant , probably stirred by circumstances into action , for renouncing the empty arena of this world's honours and wealth , and devoting themselves to a higher and nobler purpose . They all saw into the hol ...
Page xxii
... reason , the truth of man's immortality ; to shew the reasonableness of religion , and to inculcate the necessity of a divine revelation , and of a propitiatory sacrifice . That this argument is always steadily pursued , or logically ...
... reason , the truth of man's immortality ; to shew the reasonableness of religion , and to inculcate the necessity of a divine revelation , and of a propitiatory sacrifice . That this argument is always steadily pursued , or logically ...
Page xxxi
... from it makes the bulk of the Poem . The reason of it is , that the facts mentioned did naturally pour these moral reflections on the thought of the Writer . NIGHT FIRST . ON LIFE , DEATH , AND IMMORTALITY PREFACE. ...
... from it makes the bulk of the Poem . The reason of it is , that the facts mentioned did naturally pour these moral reflections on the thought of the Writer . NIGHT FIRST . ON LIFE , DEATH , AND IMMORTALITY PREFACE. ...
Page 5
... of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost . Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night NIGHT FIRST. ...
... of fancied misery At random drove , her helm of reason lost . Though now restored , ' tis only change of pain , ( A bitter change ! ) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night NIGHT FIRST. ...
Page 6
... reason , and on reason build resolve ( That column of true majesty in man ) , Assist me I will thank you in the grave ; The grave , your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ...
... reason , and on reason build resolve ( That column of true majesty in man ) , Assist me I will thank you in the grave ; The grave , your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine . But what are ye ...
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