An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... nature's walks , shoot folly as it flies , And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must , be candid where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to man . I. Say , first , of God above , or man below , What can we ...
... nature's walks , shoot folly as it flies , And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must , be candid where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to man . I. Say , first , of God above , or man below , What can we ...
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... nature to his hope has given , Benind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , Some happier island in the watery waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends ...
... nature to his hope has given , Benind the cloud - topt hill , an humbler heaven ; Some safer world in depth of woods embrac'd , Some happier island in the watery waste , Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends ...
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... nature wakes her genial power , " Suckles each herb and spreads out ev'ry flow'r ; " Annual for me , the grape , the rose , renew " The juice nectarius , and the balmy dew ; " For me , the mine a thousand treasures brings ; " For me ...
... nature wakes her genial power , " Suckles each herb and spreads out ev'ry flow'r ; " Annual for me , the grape , the rose , renew " The juice nectarius , and the balmy dew ; " For me , the mine a thousand treasures brings ; " For me ...
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... nature deviates ; and can man do less ? 150 As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men forever temperate , calm , and wise . [ sign ...
... nature deviates ; and can man do less ? 150 As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men forever temperate , calm , and wise . [ sign ...
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... nature , and is kept in man . 170 VI . What would this man ? Now upward will he soar , And , little less than angel , would be more ? Now looking downward , just as grieved appears To want the strength of bulls , the fur of bears . Made ...
... nature , and is kept in man . 170 VI . What would this man ? Now upward will he soar , And , little less than angel , would be more ? Now looking downward , just as grieved appears To want the strength of bulls , the fur of bears . Made ...
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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