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With scanty line shall Reason dare to mete Th’ immeasurable depths of Providence? On the swol’n bladders of opinion borne, She floats awhile, then, floundering, sinks absorbed Within that boundless sea she strove to grasp. Shall man, here stationed to revere that God Who called him into being from the dust, His moral scheme implead, and, impious, cite Th’ Almighty Legislator to the bar Of erring intellect?
With scanty line shall Reason dare to mete Th’ immeasurable depths of Providence? On the swol’n bladders of opinion borne, She floats awhile, then, floundering, sinks absorbed Within that boundless sea she strove to grasp. Shall man, here stationed to revere that God Who called him into being from the dust, His moral scheme implead, and, impious, cite Th’ Almighty Legislator to the bar Of erring intellect?
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- George Bally (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 477 · printed citation: George Bally · subject: REASON—REASONS
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