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Original poems on several subjects

In two volumes. By William Stevenson
Stevenson, William (ca. 1719-1783)

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To A CLERGYMAN Too fond of appearing in Print.

Write on, your trade is, all agree,
Argumentorum vi probare,
Eve ate of the forbidden tree,
Et quod humanum est errare.
Practice and Theory ne'er should part.
Example teaches mankind more,
Fixes the judgment, gains the heart,
Than Precept, hackney'd o'er and o'er.
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