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Date: w. 1740, 1748
"The flannel Crew / With cunning joy the fond repentance view, / Pronounce Him bless'd, his miracles proclaim, / Teach the slight croud t' adore his hallow'd name, / Exalt his praise above the Saints of old, / And coin his sinking conscience into Gold."
preview | full record— Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford (1717-1797)
Date: November 10, 1783
"He gives, what bankrupt Nature never can, / Whose noblest coin is light and brittle man, / Gold, purer far than Ophir ever knew, / A soul, an image of himself, and therefore true."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)