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OCCASIONAL MEDITATIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. UPON THE SIGHT OF A GREAT LIBRARY.

WHAT a world of wit is here packed up together! I know not whether this sight doth more dismay, or comfort me : it dismays me to think, that here is so much that I cannot know; it comforts me to think that this variety yields so good helps to know what I should. There is no truer word than that of Solomon, there is no end of making many books; this sight verifies it; there is no end indeed, it were pity there should. God hath given to man a busy soul; the agitation whereof cannot but, through time and experience, work out many hidden truths: to suppress these. TRACT MAG. THIRD SERIES, NO 85. JAN. 1841.

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