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" Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has... "
The British Cyclopaedia of the Arts, Sciences, History, Geography ... - Page 215
1838
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The Philosophy of a Future State

Thomas Dick - 1829 - 308 pages
...safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves ortee more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold, — And thinks, admitted to yon equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." Pori;. Among the...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...nature to his hope has given Behind the cloud-topped hill an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth from both navies r To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph 's fire ; But thinks, admitted...
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A System of Phrenology

George Combe - 1830 - 732 pages
...nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world, in depth of woods embraced ; Some happier island in the watery...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." The organ is established. 18. — WONDER. THIS organ is situated immediately above Ideality. Dr GALL...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heaven ; •Some safer world in depth verse / To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; 110 But thinks, admitted...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...hill, an humbler heav'n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold! To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted...
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The Philosophy of a Future State

Thomas Dick - 1831 - 284 pages
...nature to his hope has given Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold, — And thinks, admitted to yon equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company." TOP*.. Among the...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 19

1850 - 510 pages
...hope has given Behind the cloud-topped hill an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be — contents bis natural desire : He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's fire ; But thinks, admitted...
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Select [Backhouse] family memoirs

James Backhouse - 1831 - 400 pages
...States men ; she alluded to these lines of Pope, in relation to the imaginary Heaven of Indians. ' Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment; no Christians thirst for gold.1 " -And added, in reference to some who profess to be Christians : " They do indeed thirst after...
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The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential ...

Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pages
...given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold! To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to ...

Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...humbler heav'n ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, 105 Some happier island in the wat'ry waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold,...No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold! To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph•s fire; 110 But thinks, admitted...
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