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phical and other interest, it has some literary claims upon our attention, it being not quite impossible, considering its line of thought and arrangement of words, that Pope, who borrowed on all sides, and made acknowledgments on none, may have had it before him when he composed his Universal Prayer. It runs thus:—

'Nempe agnoscimus Deum, Creatorem summum atque omnipotentem, in cunctorum animalium fabricâ ubique praesentem esse, et in operibus suis quasi digito monstrari; Cujus in procreatione pulli instrumenta sint gallus et gallina. Constat quippe in generatione pulli ex ovo omnia singulari providentiâ, sapientiâ divinâ, artificioque admirabili et incomprehensibili exstructa ac efformata esse. Nec cuiquam sane haec attributa conveniunt, nisi omnipotenti rerum principio; quocunque demum nomine id ipsum appellare libuerit: sive mentem divinam cum Aristotele; sive cum Platone Animam mundi; aut cum aliis Naturam naturantem; vel cum Ethnicis Saturnum aut Jovem; vel potius, ut nos decet, Creatorem ac patrem omnium quae in coelis et

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