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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... man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection , justice or injustice , of his dispensations , ver . 109 , & c . V. The absurdity of ...
... man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection , justice or injustice , of his dispensations , ver . 109 , & c . V. The absurdity of ...
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... man's imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say rather , man's as perfect as he ought ; His knowledge measur'd to his state and place , His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect in a certain sphere , What matter soon or late ...
... man's imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say rather , man's as perfect as he ought ; His knowledge measur'd to his state and place , His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect in a certain sphere , What matter soon or late ...
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... man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not Heaven's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the god of God ! In pride , in reas'ning ...
... man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not Heaven's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the god of God ! In pride , in reas'ning ...
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... man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever temp'rate , calm , and wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he , whose hand the ...
... man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , As men for ever temp'rate , calm , and wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he , whose hand the ...
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... man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 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 ...
... man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 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 ...
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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