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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... pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's , one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches ...
... pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's , one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches ...
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... pain ? 200 If nature thunder'd in his opening ears , And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still The whispering zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and ...
... pain ? 200 If nature thunder'd in his opening ears , And stunn'd him with the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still The whispering zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and ...
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... claim To be another in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd , to mourn the tasks or pains The great directing Mind of all ordains . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , 265 Whose body nature is , and God the soul ; 18 ESSAY ON MAN .
... claim To be another in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd , to mourn the tasks or pains The great directing Mind of all ordains . All are but parts of one stupendous whole , 265 Whose body nature is , and God the soul ; 18 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts : 50 Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! II . Two principles in human nature reign ...
... pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts : 50 Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! II . Two principles in human nature reign ...
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... Pain their aversion , pleasure their desire : But greedy that , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , 90 • Our greatest evil or our greatest good . III ...
... Pain their aversion , pleasure their desire : But greedy that , its object would devour , This taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r : Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , 90 • Our greatest evil or our greatest good . III ...
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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