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* This flower is much noticed by Lewenhoeck and Tournefort. The bee,
feeding upon its blossom, becomes intoxicated.

[� Clytia – The Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, or, to employ a better-known
term, the turnsol – which continually turns towards the sun, covers
itself, like Peru, the country from which it comes, with dewy clouds which
cool and refresh its flowers during the most violent heat of the day. –
B. de St. Pierre.]

[� There is cultivated in the king’s garden at Paris, a species of
serpentine aloes without prickles, whose large and beautiful flower
exhales a strong odour of the vanilla, during the time of its expansion,
which is very short. It does not blow till towards the month of July – you
then perceive it gradually open its petals – expand them – fade and die. –
St. Pierre.]

*And Valisnerian lotus thither flown
From struggling with the waters of the Rhone :
�And thy most lovely purple perfume, Zante !
Isola d’oro ! – Fior di Levante !
�And the Nelumbo bud that floats for ever
With Indian Cupid down the holy river –
Fair flowers, and fairy ! to whose care is given
� To bear the Goddess’ song, in odors, up to Heaven :

“Spirit ! that dwellest where,
In the deep sky,
The terrible and fair,
In beauty vie !
Beyond the line of blue –
The boundary of the star
Which turneth at the view
Of thy barrier and thy bar –
Of the barrier overgone
By the comets who were cast
From their pride, and from their throne
To be drudges till the last –
To be carriers of fire
(The red fire of their heart)
With speed that may not tire
And with pain that shall not part –

* There is found, in the Rhone, a beautiful lily of the Valisnerian
kind. Its stem will stretch to the length of three or four feet – thus
preserving its head above water in the swellings of the river.

� The Hyacinth.

� It is a fiction of the Indians, that Cupid was first seen floating
in one of these down the river Ganges – and that he still loves the cradle
of his childhood.

� And golden vials full of odors which are the prayers of the saints.
– Rev. St. John.

Who livest – that we know –
In Eternity – we feel –
But the shadow of whose brow
What spirit shall reveal ?
Tho’ the beings whom thy Nesace,
Thy messenger hath known
Have dream’d for thy Infinity
*A model of their own –
Thy will is done, Oh, God !
The star hath ridden high
Thro’ many a tempest, but she rode
Beneath thy burning eye ;
And here, in thought, to thee –
In thought that can alone
Ascend thy empire and so be
A partner of thy throne –

[* The Humanitarians held that God was to be understood as having a
really human form. – Vide Clarke’s Sermons, vol. 1, page 26, fol. edit.]

The drift of Milton’s argument, leads him to employ language which
would appear, at first sight, to verge upon their doctrine ; but it will
be seen immediately, that he guards himself against the charge of having
adopted one of the most ignorant errors of the dark ages of the church. –
Dr. Sumner’s Notes on Milton’s Christian Doctrine.

This opinion, in spite of many testimonies to the contrary, could
never have been very general. Andeus, a Syrian of Mesopotamia, was
condemned for the opinion, as heretical. He lived in the beginning of the
fourth century. His disciples were called Anthropmorphites. – Vide Du
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