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From Nature’s constant or eccentric laws, The thoughtful soil this general inference draws— That an effect must pre-suppose a cause.
From Nature’s constant or eccentric laws, The thoughtful soil this general inference draws— That an effect must pre-suppose a cause.
Approximate author period: c. 1692 AD · renaissance
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- Matthew Prior
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- Approximate author period: c. 1692 AD · renaissance
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 416 · printed citation: Prior · subject: NATURE
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