An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... ev'n at life's expense ; The merchant's toil , the sage's indolence , indel prime The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike , find reason on their side . Th ' eternal art , educing good from ill , Grafts on this passion ...
... ev'n at life's expense ; The merchant's toil , the sage's indolence , indel prime The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike , find reason on their side . Th ' eternal art , educing good from ill , Grafts on this passion ...
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... Ev'n avarice , prudence ; sloth , philosophy ; • I Lust , through some certain strainers well refin'd , refined Is gentle love , and charms all womankind ; Envy , to which th ' ignoble mind is a slave , Is emulation in the learn'd or ...
... Ev'n avarice , prudence ; sloth , philosophy ; • I Lust , through some certain strainers well refin'd , refined Is gentle love , and charms all womankind ; Envy , to which th ' ignoble mind is a slave , Is emulation in the learn'd or ...
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... Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone , Or never feel the rage , or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . VI . Virtuous and vicious every man must be ; Few in th ...
... Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone , Or never feel the rage , or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . VI . Virtuous and vicious every man must be ; Few in th ...
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... ev'n the best , by fits , what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; 235 Each individual seeks a several goal ; [ the whole . VII . But Heaven's great view , is one ...
... ev'n the best , by fits , what they despise . ' Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; 235 Each individual seeks a several goal ; [ the whole . VII . But Heaven's great view , is one ...
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... Ev'n mean self - love becomes , by force divine , The scale to measure others ' wants by thine . See ! and confess , one comfort still must rise ; ' Tis this , though man's man's a a fool , yet God is wise . 290 EPISTLE III . HERE then ...
... Ev'n mean self - love becomes , by force divine , The scale to measure others ' wants by thine . See ! and confess , one comfort still must rise ; ' Tis this , though man's man's a a fool , yet God is wise . 290 EPISTLE III . HERE then ...
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act the soul Ætna agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature Decius degree divine earth EPISTLE eternal ethereal Ev'n false mirror fame fear fix'd fool Form'd gives gods govern happier happiness Heaven hope human imitating God imperfection instinct joy or curse Julius Cæsar kings knave laws Learn learn'd live look 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 pronoun reign rill rise Rubicon self-love and social sense sire slave Socrates sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee things thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne Twixt tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong