"Ah! when shall it dawn on the night of the grave!"

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“And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.”

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“Every man of learning wishes, that his son may be learned; and that not so much from a view to pecuniary advantage, as from a desire to have him supplied with the means of useful instruction and liberal amusement.”

“He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.”

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Religion1770–1829

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