An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... half - reasoning elephant , with thine ! ' Twixt that , and reason , what a nice barrier ! Forever separate , yet forever near ! 215 211. How many modes or degrees of sight are there be- tween the dimness of the mole's , and the ...
... half - reasoning elephant , with thine ! ' Twixt that , and reason , what a nice barrier ! Forever separate , yet forever near ! 215 211. How many modes or degrees of sight are there be- tween the dimness of the mole's , and the ...
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... half to rise , and half to fall : moun Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; Just 15 created . 15 EPISTLE II . L. 1. Know thyself , was the favorite maxim of the an- cients . It is here , perhaps , more confined in its meaning ...
... half to rise , and half to fall : moun Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; Just 15 created . 15 EPISTLE II . L. 1. Know thyself , was the favorite maxim of the an- cients . It is here , perhaps , more confined in its meaning ...
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... 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 raise and can build . Whate'er the passion , knowledge , fame , or pelf 2 ESSAY ON MAN . 29 ...
... 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 raise and can build . Whate'er the passion , knowledge , fame , or pelf 2 ESSAY ON MAN . 29 ...
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... half that live , the butcher , and the tomb ; Who , foe to nature , hears the general groan , Murders their species , and betrays his own . But just disease to luxury succeeds , And every death its own avenger breeds ; The fury passions ...
... half that live , the butcher , and the tomb ; Who , foe to nature , hears the general groan , Murders their species , and betrays his own . But just disease to luxury succeeds , And every death its own avenger breeds ; The fury passions ...
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... half the pain . Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest , Some are , and must be , greater than the rest , More rich , more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier , shocks all common sense . Heaven to mankind ...
... half the pain . Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest , Some are , and must be , greater than the rest , More rich , more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier , shocks all common sense . Heaven to mankind ...
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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