Note 1079 — AN ESSAY ON MAN, IN FOUR EPISTLES (continued 3)
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This is a magnificent passage. Thomson had before said in Summer, ver. 333:
Has any seen The mighty chain of beings, lessening down From infinite perfection, to the brink Of dreary nothing.—Warton.
Kennet's Pascal, p. 166: "He will find himself hanging, in the material scale, between the two vast abysses of infinite and nothing."