An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... true reasoning ; and proceeds to consider the habits , the propensities , and powers of man , his object of pursuit , his discoveries and improvements of every kind . They were addressed to Henry St. John , by the title of Lord ...
... true reasoning ; and proceeds to consider the habits , the propensities , and powers of man , his object of pursuit , his discoveries and improvements of every kind . They were addressed to Henry St. John , by the title of Lord ...
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... true meaning . The poet adverts to the five senses , in order ; asking first , Why man has not a microscopic eye , i . e . an eye formed to see the smallest objects , as are those of flies ? and then answers , because man is not a fly ...
... true meaning . The poet adverts to the five senses , in order ; asking first , Why man has not a microscopic eye , i . e . an eye formed to see the smallest objects , as are those of flies ? and then answers , because man is not a fly ...
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... true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grovelling swine , Compar'd , half - reasoning elephant , with thine ! ' Twixt that , and reason , what a nice barrier ! Forever separate , yet forever near ...
... true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grovelling swine , Compar'd , half - reasoning elephant , with thine ! ' Twixt that , and reason , what a nice barrier ! Forever separate , yet forever near ...
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... true friendship , love sincere , Each home - felt joy that life inherits here ; Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those interests , to resign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To ...
... true friendship , love sincere , Each home - felt joy that life inherits here ; Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those interests , to resign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To ...
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... True faith , true policy , united ran ; That was but love of God , and this of man . 225 230 236 223-224 . Till they began to mourn him , drooping . ick'ning , dying , as man , whom they revered as God . Him s the antecedent of whom ...
... True faith , true policy , united ran ; That was but love of God , and this of man . 225 230 236 223-224 . Till they began to mourn him , drooping . ick'ning , dying , as man , whom they revered as God . Him s the antecedent of whom ...
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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