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mountaias into the bowels of the earth ; and perhaps within the same short period of tiifre shall be entirely dispersed in the aerial expanse without any discharge to the earth at all . We mjiy attempt to reason upon these mysterious operations , but the human intellect will probably never be able to fathom the causes . We
say the alterations in the current of the air or the changes in the electric fluid produce the effects , but how the causes themselves of these changes are brought into action we are unable to explain . Our active and prying imaginations can easily place the globe oti the shoulders of Atlas , but on what terra firma he himself is then
to stand baffles all our ingenuity to conceive . Whether , therefore , tens of thousands of tons' weight of the watery element shall be vehemently snatched in . spiral eddies from the bosom of the tranquil and majestic sea as exhibited in the tremeadous
water-spout , or whether the same quantity shall be silently condensed , or dreadfully huddled in chaotic uproar within a limited compass of the » ceruleaii canopy , they are equally above omr comprehension , but equally within the scope of the original and
immutable taw * of nature . Working by such stupendous and to us inconceivable agencies , we still are enabled to trace the hand of Omnipotence guiding and sustaining the whole in
beautiful harmony and equilibrium . Whatever temporary violence may agitate or distress us , whatever changes may seem to forebode alarming and continued calamities , we may safely cherish the unbounded confidence that
the whole is governed by general and unchangeable tews ; that the wisdom which created is in perfect unison with the goodness that will sustain the goodly fabric for our support and
enjoyment , either commensurately with his own duration , according to the supposition of the sober and reasoning Deist , or limited to the period which he himself shall decree for its
change or annihilation , as communicated by his revealed and sacred word . And , as a conclusion , we see enough to convince us , that if mankind would but do aft much for themselves as a beneficent Providence ha # done in their behalf , more than half of the
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natural evils of life would b&jaeatrai ized if not removed , and the wnj aia < i ^ teach us by contrast the value pf those blessings in which we so profusely abound . JAMES LUCK COCK .
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The Person and Blindness of John Milton . Ages eiaps'd ere Honier ' s lamp appeared , And ages ere the Mantuau swan was heard ; To carry nature lengths ,, unknown before , To give a Milton birth , ask'd ages more . Thus Genius rose and set at ordered
, And shot a day-spring into distant climes , Ennobling every region that he chose ; H e sunk in Greece , in Italy he rose , And , tedious years of gothic darkness pass'd , Emerged all splendour in our Isle at last !
COWPER . Islington , Sir , October 2 , 1826 . OF the importance attached to the person of Milton the following paragraph taken from an evening paper testifies : €€ An original portrait of Milton has been recently discovered
by Mr * Robert Lemon , of the State-Paper Office . The portrait is enclosed in an oval border and represents Milton apparently about twenty or thirty years of age , the hair parteu on the forehead and hanging < lown over the shoulders curled or wavy , but not enough to warrant the epithet
of ringlets ; the forehead rather high and peculiarly formed , and the nose straight and well proportioned j but the mouth and chin are beautiful ; not the beauty of fancy or the beauty of taste , but what every person , even the most unenlightened , immediately pronounces beautiful . The costume is
strictly that of the period—a plain falling collar or band , with a cloak or mantle thrown round the shoulders This portrait remarkably an swers to the description or cognomen bestowed upon Milton , that of the lady of his college J There is a softness of
expression in the countenance and an intensity of thought with a mildness of character utterly at variance with the sturdy politician and unbending theologian of his eventful period *
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530 The Person and Blindness af John Milton
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 590, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/18/
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