“An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star.”

The Friend, No. 14
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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