An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain , it Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; ads ady there Then see ...
... learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain , it Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; ads ady there Then see ...
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... learn As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's care , fruits On savage stocks inserted learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot , Wild nature's vigor working at the root . What crops of wit and honesty appear mon . ax ...
... learn As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's care , fruits On savage stocks inserted learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot , Wild nature's vigor working at the root . What crops of wit and honesty appear mon . ax ...
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... learn'd or brave ; Nor virtue , male or female , can we name , But what Will grow on pride , or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue nearest to our vice allied : Reason the bias turns to good from ...
... learn'd or brave ; Nor virtue , male or female , can we name , But what Will grow on pride , or grow on shame . Thus nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue nearest to our vice allied : Reason the bias turns to good from ...
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... learn , in its decline , 256 Those joys , those loves , those interests , to resign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . 260 241. That applied happy faculties , & c . 245-7 . That can ...
... learn , in its decline , 256 Those joys , those loves , those interests , to resign ; Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To welcome death , and calmly pass away . 260 241. That applied happy faculties , & c . 245-7 . That can ...
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... learn'd is happy nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given , The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing ; The sot a hero ...
... learn'd is happy nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given , The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing ; The sot a hero ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature Decius degree divine earth EPISTLE ethereal Ev'n false mirror fame fear fix'd fool Form'd gives gods govern happier happiness Heaven hope human imitating God instinct joy or curse Julius Cæsar kings knave laws Learn learn'd live look lord 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 pours 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