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[centered] ~ Oration ~

Nature in perspective, is more a passion uniform and consistent the vale,
Clothed with the willow and Jessamine breathing Zep-
=hyrs [zephyrs], perfumed by its own flowers, & the mounta-
=in [mountain] in its majestic pride deriding the thunders
of heaven, fro form at one view, a pleasing, harm-
=onious [harmonious] scene. But observed in detail, the rose
and the thorn are shaded by the same cypress, &
the violet is invaded by the bramble, the regular-
=ity [regularity] of the mountain is interrupted by bold
declivities and frightful precerpices [sic], and all
appears wild extravagance and disorder, the
planets in their several Orbits, with wild
anomaly, now roll Coincident, now cross each
other's Course, approaching or receding conj-
=oint [conjoint] or opposite. But viewed Collectively, the
same Law governs all their motions, the same
because Common Centre holds them in their Courses.
Just so it is with man. Individually constant