An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... man's pride and dullness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end ; 66 Why doing , suff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not , man's imperfect , Heaven in fault ...
... man's pride and dullness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end ; 66 Why doing , suff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not , man's imperfect , Heaven in fault ...
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... man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heaven's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Rejudge his justice , be the god of God ! In pride , in reasoning ...
... man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heaven's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Rejudge his justice , be the god of God ! In pride , in reasoning ...
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... man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men forever temperate , calm , and wise . [ sign , If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's de- Why then a Borgia , or a Catiline ? [ forms , Who knows , but He whose ...
... man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men forever temperate , calm , and wise . [ sign , If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's de- Why then a Borgia , or a Catiline ? [ forms , Who knows , but He whose ...
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... man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme , The mole's dim curtain , and the lynx's beam ; Of smell , the headlong lioness between , And hound sagacious on the ...
... man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme , The mole's dim curtain , and the lynx's beam ; Of smell , the headlong lioness between , And hound sagacious on the ...
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... man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is undone . Trace science , then , with modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage ...
... man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is undone . Trace science , then , with modesty thy guide ; First strip off all her equipage ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature DANIEL CLARK Decius divine earth EPISTLE ethereal Ev'n false mirror fame fear fix'd fool Form'd gives gods govern happier happiness HARVARD COLLEGE Heaven hope human imitating God instinct joy or curse Julius Cæsar kings knave laws Learn learn'd live look lord LORD BOLINGBROKE man's mankind Marseilles means mind monarch nature's nature's law never note to line noun object pain participle passion planets Pleas'd pleasure poet prep preposition pride reign rise self-love and social sense SHAPLEIGH sire slave sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee thing thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong