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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... wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he , whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms , Pours fierce ambition in a Cesar's mind ...
... wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design , Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he , whose hand the lightning forms , Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms , Pours fierce ambition in a Cesar's mind ...
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... 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 wise , 205 Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
... 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 wise , 205 Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between in doubt to act or rest ; In doubts to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to ...
... wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between in doubt to act or rest ; In doubts to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to ...
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... wise , And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . " Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , 235 For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal ; But Heav'n's great view is one , and that the ...
... wise , And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . " Tis but by parts we follow good or ill , 235 For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal ; But Heav'n's great view is one , and that the ...
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... wise . EPISTLE III . HERE then we rest : " The universal cause " Acts to one end , but acts by various laws . " In all the madness of superfluous health , The trim of pride , the impudence of wealth , Let this great truth be present ...
... wise . EPISTLE III . HERE then we rest : " The universal cause " Acts to one end , but acts by various laws . " In all the madness of superfluous health , The trim of pride , the impudence of wealth , Let this great truth be present ...
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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