An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... kings . Let us ( since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) . NOTES Explanatory of the Grammatical construction , & c . EPISTLE I. LINE 1. The subject of these epistles is Ethics , or Morals . The poet ...
... kings . Let us ( since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) . NOTES Explanatory of the Grammatical construction , & c . EPISTLE I. LINE 1. The subject of these epistles is Ethics , or Morals . The poet ...
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... kings presumption , and to crowds belief : That , virtue's ends from vanity can raise , Which seeks no interest , no reward but praise , And build on wants , and on defects of mind , The joy , the peace , the glory of mankind . Heaven ...
... kings presumption , and to crowds belief : That , virtue's ends from vanity can raise , Which seeks no interest , no reward but praise , And build on wants , and on defects of mind , The joy , the peace , the glory of mankind . Heaven ...
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... king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet in his muse . 265 270 See some strange comfort every state attend , And pride bestow'd on all , a common friend : See some fit passion every age supply ; Hope ...
... king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet in his muse . 265 270 See some strange comfort every state attend , And pride bestow'd on all , a common friend : See some fit passion every age supply ; Hope ...
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... king un- known , Till common interest plac'd the sway in one . 210 ' Twas virtue only , ( or in arts or arms , Diffusing blessings , or averting harms , ) The same which in a sire the sons obey'd , A prince the father of a people made ...
... king un- known , Till common interest plac'd the sway in one . 210 ' Twas virtue only , ( or in arts or arms , Diffusing blessings , or averting harms , ) The same which in a sire the sons obey'd , A prince the father of a people made ...
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... kings , which , at certain pe- riods , has been so strongly urged , has no foundation in nature . 242. Many made for one is a substantive phrase gov- erned by the prep . of . Who first taught souls enslav'd , and realms un- done 12 ...
... kings , which , at certain pe- riods , has been so strongly urged , has no foundation in nature . 242. Many made for one is a substantive phrase gov- erned by the prep . of . Who first taught souls enslav'd , and realms un- done 12 ...
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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