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Date: 1739
"In reason's light, eternal word, exprest, / Stamp'd with his image in the creature's breast"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"In the pure splendor of substantial light, / The beam divine of Reason bless'd his sight."
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
Date: 1739
"But as the moon reflecting borrow'd day, /Sheds on our shadow'd world a feeble ray: /Some scatter'd beams of Reason law contains, /While Order's rule must be enforc'd by pains"
preview | full record— Nugent, Robert [or Craggs] (1702-1788)
