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globe. My expression falls greatly beneath reality: 

 these various productions are not different strokes of 

 the same designs, they are only so many various points 

 of a single stroke, that by its infinitely varied ciicu invo- 

 lutions, traces out, to the astonished eyes of the che- 

 rubim, the forms, proportions, and concatenation of all 

 earthly beings. This single stroke delineates all worlds, 

 the cherub himself is a point of it : and that ADORA- 

 BLE HAND which drew this stroke, alone possesses 

 the method of describing it. 



