An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... thee ? II . Presumptuous man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why ...
... thee ? II . Presumptuous man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why ...
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... thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is , but always to be blest . The soul , uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . 95 Lo ...
... thee to know , But gives that hope to be thy blessing now . Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never is , but always to be blest . The soul , uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . 95 Lo ...
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... thee , From thee to nothing . - On superior powers Were we to press , inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void , Where , one step broken , the great scale's de- From nature's chain whatever link you strike , 240 ...
... thee , From thee to nothing . - On superior powers Were we to press , inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void , Where , one step broken , the great scale's de- From nature's chain whatever link you strike , 240 ...
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... thee ? Vile worm ! -O madness ! pride ! impiety ! IX . What if the foot , ordained the dust to tread , Or hand , to toil , aspired to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repined 260 To serve mere engines to the ruling ...
... thee ? Vile worm ! -O madness ! pride ! impiety ! IX . What if the foot , ordained the dust to tread , Or hand , to toil , aspired to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear , repined 260 To serve mere engines to the ruling ...
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... thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction ...
... thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction ...
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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