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And I may add, not only short, but momentary: For if this Globe of Earth on which we live, compar'd with the vast Extension of the Heavens, bears no greater a proportion than that of a Point to the Circumference; what can the few days we have to live upon this Point, be, in comparison of Eternity, but a Moment? And yet how much of this Moment do we daily pare off, |
And I may add, not only short, but momentary: For if this Globe of Earth on which we live, compared with the vast Extension of the Heavens, bears no greater a proportion than that of a Point to the Circumference; what can the few days we have to live upon this Point, be, in comparison of Eternity, but a Moment? And yet how much of this Moment do we daily pare off, |
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