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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... Better for us , perhaps it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd the mind ; But all subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements ...
... Better for us , perhaps it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never passion discompos'd the mind ; But all subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements ...
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... better , or of worse . 70 O sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good ...
... better , or of worse . 70 O sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good ...
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... better shall we have ? A kingdom of the just then let it be : But first consider how those just agree . The good must merit God's peculiar care ; 135 But who , but God , can tell us who they are ? One thinks on Calvin Heaven's own ...
... better shall we have ? A kingdom of the just then let it be : But first consider how those just agree . The good must merit God's peculiar care ; 135 But who , but God , can tell us who they are ? One thinks on Calvin Heaven's own ...
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... better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six , 170 Justice a conqu'ror's sword , or truth a gown , Or public spirit , its great cure , a crown . Weak , foolish man ! will Heav'n reward us there With the same trash mad ...
... better would you fix ? Then give humility a coach and six , 170 Justice a conqu'ror's sword , or truth a gown , Or public spirit , its great cure , a crown . Weak , foolish man ! will Heav'n reward us there With the same trash mad ...
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... better were resign'd , 250 Is hung on high , to poison half mankind . All fame is foreign , but of true desert ; Plays round the head , but comes not to the heart : One self - approving hour whole years outweighs 255 Of stupid starers ...
... better were resign'd , 250 Is hung on high , to poison half mankind . All fame is foreign , but of true desert ; Plays round the head , but comes not to the heart : One self - approving hour whole years outweighs 255 Of stupid starers ...
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast bless'd blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline cause chain 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 Leibnitz 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 Pleas'd pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant UNIVERSAL PRAYER virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise