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nation are poor, and all the Rivers of Eloquence are dry in supplying Thought on an infinite Subject. How poor and mean, how base and groveling[errata 1], are the Heathen Conceptions of the Deity! something Sublime and Noble must needs be said on so great an Occasion, but in this great Article the most Celebrated of the Heathen Pens seem to flag and fink, they bear up in no Proportion to the Dignity of the Theme, as if they were depressed by the Weight, and dazled with the Splendor of the Subject.
We have no Instances to produce of any Writers that rise at all to the Majesty and Dig-
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