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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... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause 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 ...
... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause 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 ...
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... pride of such a desire , ver . 250. X. The consequence of all the absolute sub- mission , due to providence , both as to our present and future state , ver . 281 , & c . to the end . ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE II . Of the Nature and State of ...
... pride of such a desire , ver . 250. X. The consequence of all the absolute sub- mission , due to providence , both as to our present and future state , ver . 281 , & c . to the end . ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE II . Of the Nature and State of ...
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... pride of 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 ...
... pride of 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 ...
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... pride and dulness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's use and end ; Why doing , suff'ring , check ' d , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not , man's imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say rather ...
... pride and dulness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's use and end ; Why doing , suff'ring , check ' d , impell'd ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Then say not , man's imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say rather ...
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... pride , in reas'ning 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 ...
... pride , in reas'ning 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 ...
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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