An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... mankind ? From pride , from pride our very reasoning springs : Account for moral , as for natural things : 162 Why charge we heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it ...
... mankind ? From pride , from pride our very reasoning springs : Account for moral , as for natural things : 162 Why charge we heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it ...
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... mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics given , 195 T ' inspect a ...
... mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics given , 195 T ' inspect a ...
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... mankind is man . Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , A being darkly wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the skeptic's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or ...
... mankind is man . Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , A being darkly wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the skeptic's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or ...
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... mankind . Heaven forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , 245 250 Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ...
... mankind . Heaven forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , 245 250 Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ...
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... mankind : Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree . Learn each small people's genius , policies , The ants ' republic , and the realm of bees ; How those in common all their wealth bestow , And ...
... mankind : Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree . Learn each small people's genius , policies , The ants ' republic , and the realm of bees ; How those in common all their wealth bestow , And ...
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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