An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , imper mord Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks were made Taller or weaker than the weeds they shade ? Or ...
... weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , imper mord Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks were made Taller or weaker than the weeds they shade ? Or ...
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... weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to ...
... weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit . In this , or any other sphere , Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing Power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to ...
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... weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god , or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer , ought 6 Born but to die , and reasoning but to err ; 10 Alike in ignorance ...
... weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god , or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer , ought 6 Born but to die , and reasoning but to err ; 10 Alike in ignorance ...
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... weak , the organs of the frame : And hence one master passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of death ; 130 134 The young ...
... weak , the organs of the frame : And hence one master passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath , Receives the lurking principle of death ; 130 134 The young ...
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... weak queen , some favorite still obey : 150 Ah ! if she lend not arms , as well as rules , inty pronoun do Can What can she more than tell us we are fools ? de hon mead . over ShTeach us to mourn our nature , not to mend ; A sharp ...
... weak queen , some favorite still obey : 150 Ah ! if she lend not arms , as well as rules , inty pronoun do Can What can she more than tell us we are fools ? de hon mead . over ShTeach us to mourn our nature , not to mend ; A sharp ...
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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