An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot , To draw nutrition , propagate , and rot : Or , meteor - like , flame lawless through the void , Destroying others , by himself destroy'd .. Most strength the moving principle requires ; Active ...
... Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot , To draw nutrition , propagate , and rot : Or , meteor - like , flame lawless through the void , Destroying others , by himself destroy'd .. Most strength the moving principle requires ; Active ...
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... ; or those , that being imparted , court , & c . exalt . nom . to exalt -that in the nom . to court . Those in the 101-6 . Let stoics boast their virtue to be fixed ; or , that Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a 22 ESSAY ON MAN .
... ; or those , that being imparted , court , & c . exalt . nom . to exalt -that in the nom . to court . Those in the 101-6 . Let stoics boast their virtue to be fixed ; or , that Their virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a 22 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul ; Parts it may ravage , but preserves the whole . On life's vast ocean ...
... fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul ; Parts it may ravage , but preserves the whole . On life's vast ocean ...
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... fix'd , Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd ; The dross cements what else were too refin'd , which would be And in one interest body acts with mind . learn As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's care , fruits On savage stocks ...
... fix'd , Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd ; The dross cements what else were too refin'd , which would be And in one interest body acts with mind . learn As fruits , ungrateful to the planter's care , fruits On savage stocks ...
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... fix'd as fate . In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , Entangle justice in her net of law , And right , too rigid , harden into wrong ; 181 186 190 196 Still for the strong too weak , the weak too strong . Yet go ! and thus o'er all ...
... fix'd as fate . In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , Entangle justice in her net of law , And right , too rigid , harden into wrong ; 181 186 190 196 Still for the strong too weak , the weak too strong . Yet go ! and thus o'er all ...
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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