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Page 11
... live here , for has learn'd to live . Here let those reign , whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black , a courtier white ; Explain their country's dear - bought rights away , And plead for pirates * in the face of day ; With ...
... live here , for has learn'd to live . Here let those reign , whom pensions can incite To vote a patriot black , a courtier white ; Explain their country's dear - bought rights away , And plead for pirates * in the face of day ; With ...
Page 55
... live to please , must please to live . Then prompt no more the Follies you decry , As Tyrants doom their Tools of Guilt to die ; ' Tis yours this Night to bid the Reign commence Of rescu'd Nature , and reviving Sense ; To chase the ...
... live to please , must please to live . Then prompt no more the Follies you decry , As Tyrants doom their Tools of Guilt to die ; ' Tis yours this Night to bid the Reign commence Of rescu'd Nature , and reviving Sense ; To chase the ...
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... live according to nature , in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally im- pressed ; which is not written on it by precept , but en- graven by destiny , not instilled by education , but ...
... live according to nature , in obedience to that universal and unalterable law with which every heart is originally im- pressed ; which is not written on it by precept , but en- graven by destiny , not instilled by education , but ...
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Religious Progress | 3 |
Harry Hervey | 9 |
The Use of Catalogues 16 66 | 16 |
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