The First Day in Heaven: A Fragment1820 |
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Stranica 3 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Stranica 98 - And join this festive train? for with thee comes The guide, the guardian of their lovely sports, Majestic Truth; and where Truth deigns to come, Her sister Liberty will not be far.
Stranica 5 - Author for the use of a friend, and is now published in the hope of its being of some little benefit to others. The Fragment of Cicero, entitled Scipio's Dream, supplied the model of its arrangement ; but the chief design was, to connect some of the discoveries lately made in the Natural Sciences, with the most important Moral Truths. The ample and interesting Notes at the end of the volume are intended to guide the reader to the perusal of those writers, whose moral and scientific works are so well...
Stranica 53 - ... to discover traces of the arrangement exhibited by nature in her productions, which are rather scattered in the form of a network, than placed in that of a chain.
Stranica 15 - But they were to legislate for men, not as they ought to be, but as they are...