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" Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians... "
Essai sur l'homme: poëme philosophique par Alexandre Pope, en cinq langues ... - Page 6
by Alexander Pope - 1762 - 347 pages
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...humbler heaven ; •Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...
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The Philosophy of a Future State

Thomas Dick - Future life - 1831 - 288 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced. Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold, — And thinks, admitted to yon equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear...
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Select [Backhouse] family memoirs

James Backhouse - Quakers - 1831 - 400 pages
...States men ; she alluded to these lines of Pope, in relation to the imaginary Heaven of Indians. ' Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment; no Christians thirst for gold.1 " -And added, in reference to some who profess to be Christians : " They...
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The New sporting magazine, Volume 19

1850 - 510 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depths of wood embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be — contents bis natural desire : He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...
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The philosophic alphabet, with an explanation of its principles; to which is ...

George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 pages
...humbler heav-n; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac-d, Some happier island in the watry waste ; Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. v1 *"3* v- w ^ ; JV V* W tf^/W/- V"t #***# zo -z, *./£.} t,vyt.t, r ?...
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The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential ...

Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold! To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1833 - 626 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced. Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold; No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." The Mahomedan looks forward to a region of the most enchanting beauty,...
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Tales of Travel: Consisting of Narratives of Various Journeys Through Some ...

F. B. Miller - Children's stories, English - 1833 - 220 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To be, contents his natural desire, He asks no angel's wing, no seraph's...
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A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].

James Flamank - 1833 - 436 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold ; No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold." The Mahomedan looks forward to a region of the most enchanting beauty,...
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Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in ...

Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 5. To BE, contents his natural desire ; He asks no angel's wings, no seraph's...
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