An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 Seiten |
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... faith , and all th ' allegiance then ; For nature knew no right divine in men : No ill could fear in God ; and understood A sovereign being , but a sovereign good . True faith , true policy , united ran , 230 235 That was but love of ...
... faith , and all th ' allegiance then ; For nature knew no right divine in men : No ill could fear in God ; and understood A sovereign being , but a sovereign good . True faith , true policy , united ran , 230 235 That was but love of ...
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... but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow drew : 1 Taught power's due use to people and to kings , 333 ESSAY ON MAN . 38.
... but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow drew : 1 Taught power's due use to people and to kings , 333 ESSAY ON MAN . 38.
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... faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree , But all mankind's concern is charity : 305 All must be false that thwarts this one great end , And all of ...
... faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : In faith and hope the world will disagree , But all mankind's concern is charity : 305 All must be false that thwarts this one great end , And all of ...
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... being any bliss can know , But touches some above , and some below ; Learns , from this union of the rising whole , The first , last purpose of the human soul ; 335 And knows where faith , law , morals , all 50 ESSAY ON MAN .
... being any bliss can know , But touches some above , and some below ; Learns , from this union of the rising whole , The first , last purpose of the human soul ; 335 And knows where faith , law , morals , all 50 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... faith , law , morals , all began , All end , in Love of God , and Love of Man . For him alone , hope leads from goal to goal , And opens still , and opens on his soul ; Till lengthen'd on to faith , and unconfin'd , It pours the bliss ...
... faith , law , morals , all began , All end , in Love of God , and Love of Man . For him alone , hope leads from goal to goal , And opens still , and opens on his soul ; Till lengthen'd on to faith , and unconfin'd , It pours the bliss ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 10 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Seite 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Seite 17 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
Seite 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Seite 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Seite 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Seite 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Seite 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Seite 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Seite 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...