An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... proper organs , proper powers assigned ; Each seeming want compensated of course ; Here with degrees of swiftness , there of force ; All in exact proportion to the state ; Nothing to add , and nothing to abate . 174 180 Each beast ...
... proper organs , proper powers assigned ; Each seeming want compensated of course ; Here with degrees of swiftness , there of force ; All in exact proportion to the state ; Nothing to add , and nothing to abate . 174 180 Each beast ...
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... proper bliss depends on what we blame . Know thy own point : This kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the ...
... proper bliss depends on what we blame . Know thy own point : This kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the ...
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... proper study of 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 ...
... proper study of 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 ...
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... ( self - love ) a bad principle . 56. Each works its end , which is , & c .; or the sub . phrase , to move or govern all , may be in apposition with cnd . And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good ; 20 ESSAY ON MAN .
... ( self - love ) a bad principle . 56. Each works its end , which is , & c .; or the sub . phrase , to move or govern all , may be in apposition with cnd . And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good ; 20 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... proper operation still Ascribe all good ; to their improper , ill . Self - love , the spring of motion , acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole . Man , but for that , no action could attend , And but for this , were ...
... proper operation still Ascribe all good ; to their improper , ill . Self - love , the spring of motion , acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole . Man , but for that , no action could attend , And but for this , were ...
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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