An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... Self - love , to urge , and reason , to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a bad we call , Each works its end , to move or govern all : 55 coveries , describe or fix one movement of his own mind ? Could he explain his own beginning ...
... Self - love , to urge , and reason , to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a bad we call , Each works its end , to move or govern all : 55 coveries , describe or fix one movement of his own mind ? Could he explain his own beginning ...
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... Self - love , the spring of motion , acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole . Man , but for that , no action could attend , And but for this , were active to no end : man Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot , To ...
... Self - love , the spring of motion , acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole . Man , but for that , no action could attend , And but for this , were active to no end : man Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot , To ...
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... self - love restrains . Let subtle school - men teach these friends to fight , More studious to divide than to unite ; And grace and virtue , sense and reason split With all the rash dexterity of wit . Wits , just like fools , at war ...
... self - love restrains . Let subtle school - men teach these friends to fight , More studious to divide than to unite ; And grace and virtue , sense and reason split With all the rash dexterity of wit . Wits , just like fools , at war ...
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... love . A mightier power the strong direction sends , And sev'ral men impels to sev'ral ends : Like varying winds ... self - love . Or ( oft more strong than all ) the love 3 ESSAY ON MAN . 25 only ...
... love . A mightier power the strong direction sends , And sev'ral men impels to sev'ral ends : Like varying winds ... self - love . Or ( oft more strong than all ) the love 3 ESSAY ON MAN . 25 only ...
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... self directs it still ; ed eati 235 Each individual seeks a several goal ; [ the whole . VII . But Heaven's great ... love sincere , owe Each home - felt joy that life inherits here ;八 Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , 256 ...
... self directs it still ; ed eati 235 Each individual seeks a several goal ; [ the whole . VII . But Heaven's great ... love sincere , owe Each home - felt joy that life inherits here ;八 Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , 256 ...
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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