Having thus passed gradually through all the orders and fields of creation, and
traversed that goodly line of God's happy creatures who"leap not, but express a feast, where all the guests sit close,oil paintings for sale, and nothing
wants," without finding any deficiency which human invention might supply, nor
any harm which human interference might mend, we come at last to set ourselves
face to face with ourselves, expecting that in creatures made after the image of
God we are to find comeliness and completion more exquisite than in the fowls of
the air and the things that pass through the paths of the sea. oil painting reproductions
But behold now a sudden change from all former experience. No longer among
the individuals of the race is there equality or likeness, a distributed
fairness and fixed type visible in each, but evil diversity, and terrible stamp
of various degradation; features seamed with sickness, dimmed by sensuality,
convulsed by passion, pinched by poverty, shadowed by sorrow, branded with
remorse; bodies consumed with sloth, broken down by labor, tortured by disease,
dishonored in foul uses; intellects without power, hearts without hope, minds
earthly and devilish; our bones full of the sin of our youth, the heaven
revealing our iniquity, the earth rising up against us, the roots dried up
beneath, and the branch cut off above; well for us only, if, after beholding
this our natural face in a glass, we desire not straightway to forget what
manner of men we be. oil painting reproductions for sale
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