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For what is freedom, but the unfettered use Of all the powers which God for use had given? But chiefly this, Him first, Him last to view Through meaner powers and secondary things Effulgent, as through clouds that veil His blaze.
For what is freedom, but the unfettered use Of all the powers which God for use had given? But chiefly this, Him first, Him last to view Through meaner powers and secondary things Effulgent, as through clouds that veil His blaze.
Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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- Approximate author period: c. 1803 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 239 · printed citation: Coleridge · subject: FREEDOM
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