Author: William Paley

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• Catharine Maria Sedwick (1)
  • IN: Redwood: A Tale (1824) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Whilst the infidel mocks at the superstitions of the vulgar, insults owcr their credulous fears, their childish errors, their fantastic rites, it does not occur to him to observe, that the most preposterous device by which the weakest devotee ever believed he was securing the happiness of a future life, is more rational than unconcern about it. pon this subject nothing is so absurd as indifference;—no folly so contemptible as thoughtlessness of tevity.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, UK
• Herman Melville (1)
  • IN: Moby-Dick (1851) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.
    FROM: Natural Theology, (1802), Book, UK