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... cause Suspend th ' effect , or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world ? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for ...
... cause Suspend th ' effect , or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world ? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means Form'd for ...
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... cause Invet'rate , hopeless of a cure , conspires . The course of human things from good to ill , From ill to worse , is fatal , never fails . Increase of pow'r begets increase of wealth ; Wealth luxury , and luxury excess ; Excess ...
... cause Invet'rate , hopeless of a cure , conspires . The course of human things from good to ill , From ill to worse , is fatal , never fails . Increase of pow'r begets increase of wealth ; Wealth luxury , and luxury excess ; Excess ...
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... cause to feel the slightest fear . 90 Yourselves have seen , what time the thunders roll'd All night , me resting quiet in the fold . Or heard we that tremendous bray alone , I could expound the melancholy tone ; Should deem it by our ...
... cause to feel the slightest fear . 90 Yourselves have seen , what time the thunders roll'd All night , me resting quiet in the fold . Or heard we that tremendous bray alone , I could expound the melancholy tone ; Should deem it by our ...
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