Receive as Gospel, and which grow more rooted,
As all truths must, the more they are disputed:
VII.
I merely mean to say what Johnson said,
That in the course of some six thousand years,
All nations have believed that from the dead
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And what is strangest upon this strange head,
Is, that whatever bar the reason rears
'Gainst such belief, there's something stronger still