An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... 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 oaks were made Taller or weaker than the weeds ...
... 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 oaks were made Taller or weaker than the weeds ...
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... thou ! and in thy scale of sense , Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say , here He gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet say , if man's ...
... thou ! and in thy scale of sense , Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such ; Say , here He gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet say , if man's ...
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... 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 , which thou canst not see ; All discord , harmony not understood ; All ...
... 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 , which thou canst not see ; All discord , harmony not understood ; All ...
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... thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good , Thy joy , thy pastime , thy attire , thy food ? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn , For him as kindly spreads the flowery lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings ? Joy tunes his ...
... thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good , Thy joy , thy pastime , thy attire , thy food ? Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn , For him as kindly spreads the flowery lawn : Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings ? Joy tunes his ...
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... Thou too must perish , when thy feast is o'er ! To each unthinking being , Heaven , a friend , Gives not the useless knowledge of its end : To man imparts it ; but with such a view As , while he dreads it , makes him hope it too : The ...
... Thou too must perish , when thy feast is o'er ! To each unthinking being , Heaven , a friend , Gives not the useless knowledge of its end : To man imparts it ; but with such a view As , while he dreads it , makes him hope it too : The ...
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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