An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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... 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 they shade ? Or ask of ...
... 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 they shade ? Or ask of ...
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... weakness , Heaven bestows on 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 ...
... weakness , Heaven bestows on 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 ...
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... weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god , or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer , Born but to die , and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his ...
... weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god , or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer , Born but to die , and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his ...
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... weak , the organs of the frame : And hence one master passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of death ; 130 134 The young ...
... weak , the organs of the frame : And hence one master passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of death ; 130 134 The young ...
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... weak queen , some favorite still obey : 150 Ah ! if she lend not arms , as well as rules , What can she more than tell us we are fools ? Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend ; A sharp accuser , but a helpless friend ! Or from a ...
... weak queen , some favorite still obey : 150 Ah ! if she lend not arms , as well as rules , What can she more than tell us we are fools ? Teach us to mourn our nature , not to mend ; A sharp accuser , but a helpless friend ! Or from a ...
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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