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" The light which we have gained, was given us not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge. "
The Harvard Classics - Page 229
1909
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The Powers of Genius: A Poem, in Three Parts

John Blair Linn - 1802 - 196 pages
...on the sun itself it smites vs into darkness. Who can discern those planets that -are oft comeust, and those stars of brightest magnitude, that rise...firmament, where they may be seen evening or morning? " Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...the oppofite motion of their orbs bring them to fuch a place in the firmament, where they may be feen evening or morning ? The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever flaring on, but by it to difcover onward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 pages
...the oppofite motion of their orbs bring them to fuch a place in the firmament, where they may be feen evening or morning ? The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever flaring on, but by it to difcover onward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking...
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 9

Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brighcst magnitude that rise and set with the sun, until the...knowledge. It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and...knowledge. • It is not the unfrocking of a priest, the unmitring of a bishop, and the removing him from off the presbyterian shoulders, that will make us...
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Occasional Essays on Various Subjects: Chiefly Political and Historical ...

Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 pages
...the oppofite motion of their orbs bring them to fuch a place in the firmament, where they may be feen evening or morning ? The light which we have gained, was given us, not to be ever ftaring-on, but by it to difcover onward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...transplanted the thought into his Progress of Poesy, but nitude that rise and set with the Sun, untill the opposite motion of their orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament, where they may be seen evning or morning ? The light which we have gain'd, was giv'n us, not to be ever staring on, but by...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 9

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pages
...on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and...light, which we have gained, was given us, not to be staring on, but by it to discover outward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

1834 - 580 pages
...on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude, that rise and set with the sun( until the opposite motion of these orbs bring them to such a place in the firmament where they may be seen evening or morning ?...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 9

1824 - 408 pages
...on the sun itself, it smites us into darkness. Who can discern those planets that are oft combust, and those stars of brightest magnitude that rise and...light, which we have gained, was given us, not to be staring on, but by it to discover outward things more remote from our knowledge. It is not the unfrocking...
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