An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord BolingbrokeDorr, Howland; Charles A. Mirick, printer, 1839 - 48 Seiten |
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... fair ; Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod , And quitting sense call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run , And turn their heads to imitate the sun . Go , teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule ; Then drop into ...
... fair ; Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod , And quitting sense call imitating God ; As eastern priests in giddy circles run , And turn their heads to imitate the sun . Go , teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule ; Then drop into ...
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... fair , List under reason , and deserve her care : Those that , imparted , court a nobler aim , 55 95 Exalt their kind , and take some virtue's name . In lazy apathy let Stoics boast 100 Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ...
... fair , List under reason , and deserve her care : Those that , imparted , court a nobler aim , 55 95 Exalt their kind , and take some virtue's name . In lazy apathy let Stoics boast 100 Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ...
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... fair pleasure's smiling train , Hate , fear , and grief , the family of pain , 115 These mix'd with art , and to due bounds confin'd , Make , and maintain , the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well accorded strife ...
... fair pleasure's smiling train , Hate , fear , and grief , the family of pain , 115 These mix'd with art , and to due bounds confin'd , Make , and maintain , the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well accorded strife ...
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... fair and wise , And e'en the best , by fits what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , For , vice or virtue , SELF directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal : 230 235 But heaven's great view is one ...
... fair and wise , And e'en the best , by fits what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , For , vice or virtue , SELF directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal : 230 235 But heaven's great view is one ...
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... 'st to grow ? Fair op'ning to some courts , propitious shine , Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield , 5 10 Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where ESSAY ON MAN . 35.
... 'st to grow ? Fair op'ning to some courts , propitious shine , Or deep with diamonds in the flaming mine ? Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield , 5 10 Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where ESSAY ON MAN . 35.
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