An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... rise ; Laugh where we must , be candid where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to man . I. Say , first , of God above , or man below , What can we reason , but from what we know ? Capt Of man , what see we but his station here ...
... rise ; Laugh where we must , be candid where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to man . I. Say , first , of God above , or man below , What can we reason , but from what we know ? Capt Of man , what see we but his station here ...
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... rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reasoning life , ' tis plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as man ; And all the question ( wrangle e'er so long ) at meat Is only this , if God has placed him wrong ? Respecting ...
... rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reasoning life , ' tis plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as man ; And all the question ( wrangle e'er so long ) at meat Is only this , if God has placed him wrong ? Respecting ...
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... rise ; 66 140 My footstool earth , my canopy the skies . " But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations ...
... rise ; 66 140 My footstool earth , my canopy the skies . " But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations ...
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... 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 . Know ...
... 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 . Know ...
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... rise and there descend , Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas , what wonder ! man's superior part part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; only But when his own great , work is but begun , T What reason weaves , by ...
... rise and there descend , Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas , what wonder ! man's superior part part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; only But when his own great , work is but begun , T What reason weaves , by ...
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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