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" Omnipotent might send him forth In sight of mortal and immortal powers, As on a boundless theatre, to run The great career of justice ; to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds ; To chase each partial purpose from his breast ; And through the mists... "
The Poetical Works of Akenside and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each - Page 124
by Mark Akenside - 1878
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The Life of John Buncle, Esq, Volume 2

Thomas Amory - 1825 - 350 pages
...passion and of sense, And thro' the tossing tide of chance and pain, To hold his course unfault'ring, while the voice Of truth and virtue, up the steep ascent Of nature, calls him to his high reward, Th' applauding smile of heav'n? Else wherefore burns In mortal bosoms this unquenched hope, That breathes...
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The life of John Buncle, esq; [by T. Amory].

Thomas Amory - 1825 - 1092 pages
...passion and of sense, And thro' the tossing tide of chance and pain. To hold his course unfault'ring, while the voice Of truth and virtue, up the steep ascent Of nature, calls him to his high reward, Th' applauding smile of heav'n? Else wherefore burns In mortal bosoms this unquenched hope, That breathes...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...; to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds ; To ehase eaeh partial purpose from his breast ; I stand, I see the rural virtues leave the land. Down where yon anehoring ves ehanee and pain, To hold his eourse unfaultering, while the voiee Of truth and virtue, up the steep...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - Intellect - 1826 - 522 pages
...to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds, — To chase each partial purpose from his breast ; And through the mists of passion and of sense, And...high reward, — The applauding smile of Heaven."* It is in this boundless theatre, with mankind for our witnesses, and God for our Judge and Rewarder,...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...; to exalt His gen'rous aim to all diviner deeds ; To chase each partial purpose from his breast ; And through the mists of passion and of sense, And...tossing tide of chance and pain . To hold his course unfalt'ring, while the voice Of Truth and Virtue, up the steep ascent Of Nature, calls him to his high...
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The Medical Companion: Or Family Physician; Treating of the Diseases of the ...

James Ewell - Cooking - 1827 - 868 pages
...deeds; To chase each partial purpose from his breast, And through the tossing tide of chance and pain,To hold his course unfaltering, while the voice Of Truth and Virtue up the steep ascent Of nature, call him to his high reward, The applauding smile of Heaven. — AKENSIDE. ON HYGIEINE; OR, THE ART...
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The Catholic miscellany and monthly repository of information, Volume 1

1828 - 408 pages
...to exalt His generous aim to all diviner deeds, — To chase each partial purpose from his breast ; And through the mists of passion and of sense, And...high reward, — The applauding smile of heaven." While acting in the only manner that can preserve his own useful influence, he is necessarily promoting...
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A scriptural and allegorical glossary to Milton's Paradise lost

Christian Cann - 1828 - 570 pages
...justice; to exalt His gen'rous aim to all diviner deeds ; To chase each partial purpose from his breast ; And through the mists of passion and of sense, And...tossing tide of chance and pain To hold his course unfalt'ring, while the voice Of truth and virtue, up the steep ascent Of nature, calls him to his high...
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The Mental Guide: Being a Compend of the First Principles of Metaphysics ...

Psychology - 1828 - 394 pages
...pre-ordained ? Might send him forth the sovereign good to learn To chase each meaner purpose from his breast ; And through the mists of passion and of sense, And through the pelting storms of chance and pain, To hold straight on with constant heart and eye Still fixed upon...
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Memoirs and Select Papers of Horace B. Morse, A. B., of Haverhill, N.H.: Who ...

Charles Burroughs - 1829 - 212 pages
...imparting to them the most extensive benefits, must ever command our admiration and applause. He, who " through the mists of passion and of sense, and through the tossing tide of chance and pain," holds on. his way unfalBering " up the steep ascent of nature," will ever receive the encouragement...
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