Analectic Magazine: Containing Selections from Foreign Reviews and Magazines, Bind 8

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James Maxwell, 1816

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Side 53 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb ? When I made the cloud the garment thereof, And thick darkness a...
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