An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... slave , the next a deity . Then say not , man's imperfect , Heaven in fault ; Say , rather , man's as perfect as he ought ; 70 His knowledge measured to his state and place ; His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect ...
... slave , the next a deity . Then say not , man's imperfect , Heaven in fault ; Say , rather , man's as perfect as he ought ; 70 His knowledge measured to his state and place ; His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect ...
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... slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold ; To be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; 110 But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His ...
... slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold ; To be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; 110 But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His ...
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... slave , Is emulation in the learn'd or brave ; Nor virtue , male or female , can we name , But what will grow on pride , or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue nearest to our vice allied : Reason ...
... slave , Is emulation in the learn'd or brave ; Nor virtue , male or female , can we name , But what will grow on pride , or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue nearest to our vice allied : Reason ...
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... slaves of subjects made : She midst the lightning's blaze , and thunder's sound , When rock'd the mountains , and when groan'd the ground , 255 She taught the weak to bend , the proud to pray To power unseen , and mightier far than they ...
... slaves of subjects made : She midst the lightning's blaze , and thunder's sound , When rock'd the mountains , and when groan'd the ground , 255 She taught the weak to bend , the proud to pray To power unseen , and mightier far than they ...
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... slaves , or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards . 213 Look next on greatness ; say , where greatness lies : 220 " Where but among the heroes and the wise ? " Heroes are much the same , the point's agreed , From ...
... slaves , or cowards ? Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards . 213 Look next on greatness ; say , where greatness lies : 220 " Where but among the heroes and the wise ? " Heroes are much the same , the point's agreed , From ...
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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