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" Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. "
The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing ... - Page 63
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. During the preparations for his departure, Dr. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August J, 1728,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way : The four first acts...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. During the preparations for his departure, Dr. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August 1, 1728,...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 7

Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 802 pages
...not impose for truth and sense, The pedantry of courts and schools, he concludes with the following stanza, Westward the course of empire takes its way...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last. These verses, the only poetry attributed to Berkeley, were first published in a Miscellany which i...
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Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724

Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way . The four first acts...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. •^ persuasions as will keep one of the first men in this kingdom for learning and virtue quiet at...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 6

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes it's way : The four first acts already past, A fifth shall...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.' * The very day before he sailed, in the midst of all his bustle, and with his whole soul on the stretch...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 13

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 576 pages
...poetic prediction of Bishop BERKELEY : : , " Westward the course of empire takes its way, " The tour first acts already past; " A fifth shall close the...the day : " Time's noblest offspring is the last. - ' This will be a mighty revolution, noi brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice, but one...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 13

Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
.... !••.::. " Westward the course of empire takes its way, K • .•-• !> "The (bur first arts already past; .. . " A fifth shall close the drama...••• .• " Time's noblest offspring is the last." ..t This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by wars, by violence, 'by injustice, but one...
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Voyage to South America: Performed by Order of the American ..., Volume 2

Henry Marie Brackenridge - Argentina - 1819 - 390 pages
...of bishop BERKELEY. "Westward the coarse of empire takes its way, The four first acts already pa*; A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last." This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice; but one, in...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 3

George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. . A SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS; AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING...
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Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq

Prince Hoare - Abolitionists - 1820 - 634 pages
...young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay — By future poets shall be sung. " VI. Westward the course of empire takes its way: The four first acts...the day :— Time's noblest offspring is the last." vrhere he conceived that, consequently, a general diffusion of the precepts contained in the Scriptures...
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