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portunity to imprels him with an awful settle of
the power and preience of the Supreme attd Eter-
nal Being*, from whom his own exigence was de-
rived : ' Let us remembet,' said he, * that to every
* acf of this immaterial and immortal part, the
* Father of spu'its , from whom it proceeds , is
* preient : when I behold the busy multitudes that
* croud the metropolis of Perha, in the pursuit of
'buhnels and projects inhniteiy comp heated and
* various ; and conhder that every idea which pah
* ies over their minds, everv conclusion , and every
'purpose , with all that they remember of thepalf,
'and all that they imagine of the future, is at once
'known to the Almighty , who without labour
'or confulton weighs every thought of every mind
' in His balance , and relerves it to the day of re-
'tribution ; my follies cover me with confuhoil,
' and my soul is humbled in the dud.'
Almoran, though he appeared to lisfen with
attention, and ossered nothing againlt thereason-
ungofOmar, yet secretly despiled it as sophisfry,
which cunning only had rendered specious ; and
which he was unable to confute, merely becaule
dt it was subtle , and not becaule it was true: he
had been led , by his pastions , hrsi to love, and
then to adopt different opinions; and as every man
is inclined to judge of others by himlelf, he doubt-
ed , whether the principles which Omar had thus
laboured to eifablish, were believed even by Omar
himself
Thus was the mind of Almoran to the inssruc-
tions of Omar , as a rock ilighdv covered with
earth , is to the waters of heaven : the crags are left
hare by the rain that waihes them ; and the lame
lhowers
portunity to imprels him with an awful settle of
the power and preience of the Supreme attd Eter-
nal Being*, from whom his own exigence was de-
rived : ' Let us remembet,' said he, * that to every
* acf of this immaterial and immortal part, the
* Father of spu'its , from whom it proceeds , is
* preient : when I behold the busy multitudes that
* croud the metropolis of Perha, in the pursuit of
'buhnels and projects inhniteiy comp heated and
* various ; and conhder that every idea which pah
* ies over their minds, everv conclusion , and every
'purpose , with all that they remember of thepalf,
'and all that they imagine of the future, is at once
'known to the Almighty , who without labour
'or confulton weighs every thought of every mind
' in His balance , and relerves it to the day of re-
'tribution ; my follies cover me with confuhoil,
' and my soul is humbled in the dud.'
Almoran, though he appeared to lisfen with
attention, and ossered nothing againlt thereason-
ungofOmar, yet secretly despiled it as sophisfry,
which cunning only had rendered specious ; and
which he was unable to confute, merely becaule
dt it was subtle , and not becaule it was true: he
had been led , by his pastions , hrsi to love, and
then to adopt different opinions; and as every man
is inclined to judge of others by himlelf, he doubt-
ed , whether the principles which Omar had thus
laboured to eifablish, were believed even by Omar
himself
Thus was the mind of Almoran to the inssruc-
tions of Omar , as a rock ilighdv covered with
earth , is to the waters of heaven : the crags are left
hare by the rain that waihes them ; and the lame
lhowers