The British Critic, Volumes 1-2F. and C. Rivington, 1793 |
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Page 451 - Who all my fenfe confin'd To know but this, that Thou art Good, And that myfelf am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark eftate, To fee the good from ill ; And binding nature faft in fate. Left free the human will. What Confcience...
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