 | John Bell - 1789 - 378 pages
...sun-beam-written truths deny, / v And execute plain co.nmon sense On faith's meer hear-say evidence ? That superstition mayn't create, And club its ills...certainty I find. Since optic reason shews me plain, _/f» . -*I-dreaded speftres of the brain. / And legendary fears are gone, Though in tenacious childhood... | |
 | 1791 - 202 pages
...Dare sun-beam-written truths deny, And execute plain common sense On faith's mere hear-say evidence! That Superstition mayn't create, And club its ills...I many a notion take to task, Made dreadful by its visor- mask. Thus scruple, spasm of the mind, Is cur'd, and certainty I find. Since optic reason shows... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 682 pages
...Dare suu-beaiu-wntteii truths deny, And execute plain common sense On faith's mere hearsay evidence? That superstition mayn't create, And club its ills...Is cur'd, and certainty I find. Since optic reason show> me plain, I dreaded spectres of the brain. And legendary fears are gone, Though in tenacious... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 686 pages
...Dare suu-beam-written truths deny, And execute plain commun sense On faith's mere hearsay evidence ? That superstition mayn't create, And club its ills...its visor-mask. Thus scruple, spasm of the mind, Is curtí, and certainty I find. Since optic reason shows me plain, 1 dreaded spectres of the brain. And... | |
 | 1814 - 310 pages
...sun-beam written truths deny, And execute plain common sense On faith's mere hearsay evidence ? ., That superstition mayn't create And club its ills...by its visor-mask. Thus scruple, spasm of the mind, [3 cured, and certainty I find. Since optic reason shews me plain, I dreaded spectres of the brain,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 pages
...Dare sun-beam-written truths deny, And execute plain common sense, On faith's mere hearsay evidence > That superstition may'nt create, And club its ills...Is cur'd, and certainty I find; Since optic reason shows me plaiiu I dreaded spectres of the brain; And legendary fears are pone, Though in tenacious... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...Dare sun-boam-written truths deny, And execute plain common sense On faith's mere hearsay evidence? it surpass'd, and goddess-like deport, Though not...angels brought. To Pales, or Pomona, thus adorn *d, shows me plain, I dreaded spectres of the brain. And legendary fears are gone, Though in tenacious... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 366 pages
...Dare sun-beam-written truths deny, And execute plain common sense On faith's mere hearsay evidence ? That superstition mayn't create, And club its ills...Is cur'd, and certainty I find. Since optic reason shows me plain, I dreaded spectres of the brain. And legendary fears are gone, Though in tenacious... | |
 | 1822 - 282 pages
...faith's mere hearsay evidence ? That superstition may n't create, And club its ills with those of fate, I I many a notion take to task, Made dreadful by its visor-mask; Thus scruple, spasm of the mind, Is cured, and certainty I find; Since optic reason shows me plain, I dreaded spectres of the brain; And... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 268 pages
...Dare sunbeam written truths deny, And execute plain common sense, On faith's mere hearsay evidence ? That superstition mayn't create, And club its ills with those of fate, x I many a notion take to task, Made dreadful by its visor-mask ; Thus scruple, spasm of the mind,... | |
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For who, though brib'd by gain to lie, Dare sun-beam-written truths deny, And execute plain common sense On faith's mere hearsay evidence ? That superstition mayn't create, And club its ills with those of Fate, I many a notion take to task, Made dreadful... 
