An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... mankind ? From pride , from pride our very reasoning springs : Account for moral , as for natural things : 162 Why charge we heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it ...
... mankind ? From pride , from pride our very reasoning springs : Account for moral , as for natural things : 162 Why charge we heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it ...
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... organs , & c . , and compensated each seeming want . 184. To add and to abate seem to imply a passive signi fication - Nothing to be added and nothing to be abated . Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No 12 ESSAY ON MAN .
... organs , & c . , and compensated each seeming want . 184. To add and to abate seem to imply a passive signi fication - Nothing to be added and nothing to be abated . Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No 12 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics given , 190 195 T ...
... mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics given , 190 195 T ...
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... mankind is man . man Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , he is A being darkly wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the skeptic's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt ...
... mankind is man . man Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , he is A being darkly wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the skeptic's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt ...
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... mankind . Heaven forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , 240 245 250 Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer ...
... mankind . Heaven forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , 240 245 250 Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer ...
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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