An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeHyde, Lord & Duren, 1824 - 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 , T ' inspect a ...
... 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 , T ' inspect a ...
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... mankind is man . Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , 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 to act , or ...
... mankind is man . Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , 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 to act , or ...
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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 , 245 250 Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ...
... mankind . Heaven forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , 245 250 Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature DANIEL CLARK Decius 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 lights and shades live look lord LORD BOLINGBROKE 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 prep preposition pride reign rill rise self-love and social sense sire slave sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee thing thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne Twixt tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong
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Seite 8 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Seite 10 - In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the Eternal Cause.
Seite 58 - But by your fathers' worth if yours you rate, Count me those only who were good and great. Go! if your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept through scoundrels ever since the Flood, Go! and pretend your family is young, Nor own your fathers have been fools so long. What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Seite 9 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Seite 10 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Seite 18 - With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much 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; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much...
Seite 59 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath; A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Seite 6 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end; Why doing, suffring, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Seite 33 - Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Seite 19 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all. Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...