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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... kings . Let us ( since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot , Or ...
... kings . Let us ( since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot , Or ...
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... to the chief , To kings presumption , and to crowds belief : That virtue's ends from vanity can raise , 245 Which seeks no int'rest , no reward but praise ; And build on wants , and on defects of mind ESSAY ON MAN . 27.
... to the chief , To kings presumption , and to crowds belief : That virtue's ends from vanity can raise , 245 Which seeks no int'rest , no reward but praise ; And build on wants , and on defects of mind ESSAY ON MAN . 27.
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... king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet in his muse . 270 See some strange comfort ev'ry state attend , And pride bestow'd on all , a common friend ; See some fit passion ev'ry age supply , Hope ...
... king ; The starving chymist in his golden views Supremely blest , the poet in his muse . 270 See some strange comfort ev'ry state attend , And pride bestow'd on all , a common friend ; See some fit passion ev'ry age supply , Hope ...
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... king unknown , Till common int'rest plac'd the sway in one . 210 ' Twas virtue only ( or in arts or arms , Diffusing blessings , or averting harms , ) The same which in a sire the sons obey'd , A prince the father of a people made . 214 ...
... king unknown , Till common int'rest plac'd the sway in one . 210 ' Twas virtue only ( or in arts or arms , Diffusing blessings , or averting harms , ) The same which in a sire the sons obey'd , A prince the father of a people made . 214 ...
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... kings learn'd justice and benevolence : 280 Self - love forsook the path it first pursu❜d , And found the private in the public good . ' Twas then the studious head , or gen'rous mind , Follower of God , or friend of human kind , Poet ...
... kings learn'd justice and benevolence : 280 Self - love forsook the path it first pursu❜d , And found the private in the public good . ' Twas then the studious head , or gen'rous mind , Follower of God , or friend of human kind , Poet ...
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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