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What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind And while it satisfies, it censures too.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Satisfies
Censure
Implicit
Reproach
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Miracle
Mankind
Censures

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Midway from Nothing to the Deity!
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