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...pre-eminence, as being first in creation and internal faculties, breaks out into the following rapture : -Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say. Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom, in discourse with her. Loses, discountenanced,...

...; who, though he asserts his superiority of reason in his debates with the mother of mankind, adds, -Yet when I approach * Her loveliness, so absolute...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best : All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discountenanced,...

...desires by which our sex is debased. It is thus that Adam describes the sanctity of our first parent : " Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she...say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'nanced,...

...the incomparable Milton, " Understood, in the prime end " Of nature, Her the inferior, in the mind " And inward faculties, which most excel ; " In outward...expressing " The character of that dominion given " O'er other creatures :" But he was still sensible of an influence that she exerted over him, more...

...of inward less exact When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself compleat, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do...or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best ; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded : wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanc'd,...

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...of releasing her husband from his unjust captivity. c 5 CHAP. CHAP- III. • ":'. •'• ; ' ' • When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems,...And in herself complete ; so well to know Her own, thtit what shc wills to ilo or vay Seems wisest, virtuousest, djscreetest, best ; All higher knowledge...