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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357284" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there be twelve cardinal virtues -- three to the East -- Greatness, Valour, Piety. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there be three to the West -- Goodness, Purity and Sublimity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there be three to the North -- Meditation, Happiness, Strength. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there be three to the South -- Constancy, Pleasantry and Wisdom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Argument A PRIORI is GOD in every man's CONSCIENCE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Argument A POSTERIORI is God before every man's eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Four and Twenty Elders of the Revelation are Four and Twenty Eternities. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For their Four and Twenty Crowns are their respective Consummations. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a CHARACTER is the votes of the Worldlings, but the seal is of Almighty GOD alone. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is no musick in flats and sharps which are not in God's natural key. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For where Accusation takes the place of encouragement a man of Genius is driven to act the vices of a fool. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Devil can set a house on fire, when the inhabitants find combustibles. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the old account of time is the true -- Decr 28th 1759-60 -- -- -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Faith as a grain of mustard seed is to believe, as I do, that an Eternity is such in respect to the power and magnitude of Almighty God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a DREAM is a good thing from GOD. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is a dream from the adversary which is terror. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the phenomenon of dreaming is not of one solution, but many. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Eternity is like a grain of mustard as a growing body and improving spirit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the malignancy of fire is oweing to the Devil's hiding of light, till it became visible darkness. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Circle may be SQUARED by swelling and flattening. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Life of God is in the body of man and his spirit in the Soul. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there was no rain in Paradise because of the delicate construction of the spiritual herbs and flowers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Planet Mercury is the WORD DISCERNMENT. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Scotchman seeks for truth at the bottom of a well, the Englishman in the Heavn of Heavens. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Planet Venus is the WORD PRUDENCE or providence. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For GOD nevertheless is an extravagant BEING and generous unto loss. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is no profit in the generation of man and the loss of millions is not worth God's tear. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For this is the twelfth day of the MILLENNIUM of the MILLENNIUM foretold by the prophets -- give the glory to God ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Planet Mars is the word FORTITUDE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For to worship naked in the Rain is the bravest thing for the refreshing and purifying the body. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Planet Jupiter is the WORD DISPENSATION. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Tully says to be generous you must be first just, but the voice of Christ is distribute at all events. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Kittim is the father of the Pygmies, God be gracious to Pigg his family. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Soul is divisible and a portion of the Spirit may be cut off from one and applied to another. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For NEW BREAD is the most wholesome especially if it be leaven'd with honey. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a NEW SONG also is best, if it be to the glory of God; and taken with the food like the psalms. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Planet Saturn is the word TEMPERANCE or PATIENCE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Jacob's Ladder are the steps of the Earth graduated hence to Paradice and thence to the throne of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a good wish is well but a faithful prayer is an eternal benefit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For SPICA VIRGINIS is the star that appeared to the wise men in the East and directed their way before it was yet insphered. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For an IDEA is the mental vision of an object. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Lock supposes that an human creature, at a given time may be an atheist i.e. without God, by the folly of his doctrine concerning innate ideas. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it is not lawful to sell poyson in England any more than it is in Venice, the Lord restrain both the finder and receiver. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the ACCENTS are the invention of the Moabites, who learning the GREEK tongue marked the words after their own vicious pronuntiation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the GAULS (the now-French and original Moabites) after they were subdued by Cæsar became such Grecians at Rome. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Gaullic manuscripts fell into the hands of the inventors of printing. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all the inventions of man, which are good, are the communications of Almighty God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all the stars have satellites, which are terms under their respective words. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For tiger is a word and his satellites are Griffin, Storgis, Cat and others. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For my talent is to give an Impression upon words by punching, that when the reader casts his eye upon 'em, he takes up the image from the mould which I have made. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For JOB was the son of Issachar and patience is the child of strength. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Names of the DAYS, as they now stand, are foolish and abominable. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Days are the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the names of the months are false -- the Hebrew appellatives are of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Time of the Lord's temptation was in early youth and imminent danger. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For an equivocal generation is a generation and no generation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For putrifying matter nevertheless will yield up its life in diverse creatures and combinations of creatures. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a TOAD can dwell in the centre of a stone, because -- there are stones whose constituent life is of those creatures. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a Toad hath by means of his eye the most beautiful prospects of any other animal to make him amends for his distance from his Creator in Glory. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For FAT is the fruit of benevolence, therefore it was the Lord's in the Mosaic sacrifices. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the very particular laws of Moses are the determinations of CASES that fell under his cognizance. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Devil can make the shadow thicker by candlelight by reason of his pow'r over malignant fire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Romans clipped their words in the Augustan thro idleness and effeminacy and paid foreign actors for speaking them out. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when the weight and the pow'r are equivalent the prop is of none effect. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For shaving of the beard was an invention of the people of Sodom to make men look like women. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the ends of the world are the accomplishment of great events, and the consummation of periods. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ignorance is a sin because illumination is to be obtained by prayer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Preferment is not from the East, West or South, but from the North, where Satan has most power. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the ministers of the Devil set the hewer of wood over the head of God's free Man. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For this inverting God's good order, edifice and edification, and appointing place, where the Lord has not appointed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Ethiopian question is already solved in that the Blacks are the children of Cain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the phenomenon of the horizontal moon is the truth -- she appears bigger in the horizon because she actually is so. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it was said of old 'can the Ethiopian change his skin?' the Lord has answered the question by his merit and death he shall. -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the moon is magnified in the horizon by Almighty God, and so is the Sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For she has done her day's-work and the blessing of God upon her, and she communicates with the earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For when she rises she has been strength'ned by the Sun, who cherishes her by night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For man is born to trouble in the body, as the sparks fly upwards in the spirit. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For man is between the pinchers while his soul is shaping and purifying. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the ENGLISH are the seed of Abraham and work up to him by Joab, David, and Naphtali. God be gracious to us this day. General Fast March 14th 1760. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Romans and the English are one people the children of the brave man who died at the altar praying for his posterity, whose death was the type of our Saviour's. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the WELCH are the children of Mephibosheth and Ziba with a mixture of David in the Jones's. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Scotch are the children of Doeg with a mixture of Cush the Benjamite, whence their innate antipathy to the English. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the IRISH are the children of Shimei and Cush with a mixture of something lower -- the Lord raise them! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the FRENCH are Moabites even the children of Lot. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the DUTCH are the children of Gog. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Poles are the children of Magog. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Italians are the children of Samuel and are the same as the Grecians. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Spaniards are the children of Abishai Joab's brother, hence is the goodwill between the two nations. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Portuguese are the children of Amman -- God be gracious to Lisbon and send good angels amongst them! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Hottentots are the children of Gog with a Black mixture. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Russians are the Children of Ishmael. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Turks are the children of Esaw, which is Edom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Wallachians are the children of Huz. God be gracious to Elizabeth Hughes, as she was. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Germans are the children of the Philistins even the seed of Anak. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Prussians are the children of Goliah -- but the present, whom God bless this hour, is a Campbell of the seed of Phinees. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Hanoverians are Hittites of the seed of Uriah. God save the king. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Hessians are Philistines with a mixture of Judah. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Saxons are Benjamites, men of great subtlety and Marshal Saxe was direct from Benjamin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Danes are of the children of Zabulon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Venetians are the children of Mark and Romans. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Swiss are Philistins of a particular family. God be gracious to Jonathan Tyers his family and to all the people at Vaux Hall. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Sardinians are of the seed of David -- The Lord forward the Reformation amongst the good seed first. -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Mogul's people are the children of Phut. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Old Greeks and the Italians are one people, which are blessed in the gift of Mustek by reason of the song of Hannah and the care of Samuel with regard to divine melody. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Germans and the Dutch are the children of the Goths and Vandals who did a good in destruction books written by heathen Free-Thinkers against God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there are Americans of the children of Toi. -- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Laplanders are the children of Gomer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Phenomena of the Diving Bell are solved right in the schools. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For NEW BREAD is the most wholesome -- God be gracious to Baker. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the English are the children of Joab, Captain of the host of Israel, who was the greatest man in the world to GIVE and to ATCHIEVE. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For TEA is a blessed plant and of excellent virtue. God give the Physicians more skill and honesty! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For nutmeg is exceeding wholesome and cherishing, neither does it hurt the liver. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For The Lightning before death is God's illumination in the spirit for preparation and for warning. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Lavender Cotton is exceeding good for the teeth. God be gracious to Windsmore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Fern is exceeding good and pleasant to rub the teeth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a strong preparation of Mandragora is good for the gout. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Bark was a communication from God and is sovereign. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the method of curing an ague by terror is exaction. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Exaction is the most accursed of all things, because it brought the Lord to the cross, his betrayers and murderers being such from their exaction. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For an Ague is the terror of the body, when the blessing of God is withheld for a season. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For benevolence is the best remedy in the first place and the bark in the second. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For, when the nation is at war, it is better to abstain from the punishment of criminals especially, every act of human vengeance being a check to the grace of God. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the letter ל [Hebrew character lamed] which signifies GOD by himself is on the fibre of some leaf in every Tree. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is the grain of the human heart and on the network of the skin. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is in the veins of all stones both precious and common. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is upon every hair both of man and beast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is in the grain of wood. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is in the ore of all metals. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is on the scales of all fish. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is on the petals of all flowers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is upon on all shells. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is in the constituent particles of air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is on the mite of the earth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is in the water yea in every drop. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is in the incomprehensible ingredients of fire. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is in the stars the sun and in the Moon. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For ל is upon the Sapphire Vault. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the doubling of flowers is the improvement of the gardners talent. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the flowers are great blessings. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the angels of God took it out of his hand and carried it to the Height. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a man cannot have publick spirit, who is void of private benevolence. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is no Height in which there are not flowers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For flowers have great virtues for all the senses. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's Creation. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the warp and woof of flowers are worked by perpetual moving spirits. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For flowers are good both for the living and the dead. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is a language of flowers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For elegant phrases are nothing but flowers. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For flowers are medicinal. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For flowers are musical in ocular harmony. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the right names of flowers are yet in heaven. God make gard'ners better nomenclators. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Poorman's nosegay is an introduction to a Prince. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it were better for the SERVICE, if only select psalms were read. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the Lamentations of Jeremiah, Songs from other scriptures, and parts of Esdras might be taken to supply the quantity. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For A is the beginning of learning and the door of heaven. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For B is a creature busy and bustling. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For C is a sense quick and penetrating. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For D is depth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For E is eternity -- such is the power of the English letters taken singly. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For F is faith. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For G is God -- whom I pray to be gracious to Liveware my fellow prisoner. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For H is not a letter, but a spirit -- Benedicatur Jesus Christus, sic spirem! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I is identity. God be gracious to Henry Hatsell. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For K is king. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For L is love. God in every language. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For M is musick and Hebrew מ [Hebrew character mem] is the direct figure of God's harp. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For N is new. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For O is open. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For P is power. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Q is quick. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For R is right. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For S is soul. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For T is truth. God be gracious to Jermyn Pratt and to Harriote his Sister. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For U is unity, and his right name is Uve to work it double. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For W is word. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For X [drawn as a backwards G and a G stuck together] is hope -- consisting of two check G -- God be gracious to Anne Hope. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Y is yea. God be gracious to Eennet and his family! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Z is zeal. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in the education of children it is necessary to watch the words, -which they pronounce with difficulty, for such are against them in their consequences. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For A is awe, if pronounced full. Stand in awe and sin not. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For B pronounced in the animal is bey importing authority. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For C pronounced hard is ke importing to shut. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For D pronounced full is day. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For E is east particularly when formed little e with his eye. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For F in it's secondary meaning is fair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For G in a secondary sense is good. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For H is heave. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For I is the organ of vision. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For K is keep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For L is light, and ל [Hebrew character lamed] is the line of beauty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For M is meet. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For N is nay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For O is over. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For P is peace. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Q is quarter. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For R is rain, or thus reign, or thus rein. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For S is save. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For T is take. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For V is veil. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For W is world. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For X [drawn as a backwards G and a G stuck together] beginneth not, but connects and continues. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Y is young -- the Lord direct me in the better way of going on in the Fifth year of my jeopardy June the 17th N.S. 1760. God be gracious to Dr YOUNG. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Z is zest. God give us all a relish of our duty. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Action and Speaking are one according to God and the Ancients. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the approaches of Death are by illumination. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a man cannot have Publick Spirit, who is void of private benevolence. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the order of Alamoth is first three, second six, third eighteen, fourth fifty four, and then the whole band. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the order of Sheminith is first ten, second twenty, third thirty and then the whole band. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the first entrance into Heaven is by complement. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Flowers can see, and Pope's Carnations knew him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For the devil works upon damps and lowth and causes agues. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Ignorance is a sin, because illumination is to be had by prayer. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For many a genius being lost at the plough is a false thought -- the divine providence is a better manager. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For a man's idleness is the fruit of the adversary's diligence. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For diligence is the gift of God, as well as other good things. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For it is a good NOTHING in one's own eyes and in the eyes of fools. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For æra in its primitive sense is but a weed amongst corn. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there is no knowing of times and seasons, in submitting them to God stands the Christian's Chronology. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Jacob's brown sheep wore the Golden fleece. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For Shaving of the face was the invention of the Sodomites to make men look like women.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christopher+Smart">Christopher Smart</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357284" data-title="Jubilate Agno: Fragment B, Part 3 de Christopher Smart" data-description="For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. 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