An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeHyde, Lord & Duren, 1846 - 72 Seiten |
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... form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or weaker than the weeds they shade ? Or ask ...
... form'd so weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canst , the harder reason guess , Why formed no weaker , blinder , and no less ? Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or weaker than the weeds they shade ? Or ask ...
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... form the best , Where all must fall or not coherent be , And all that rises , rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reasoning life , ' tis plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as man ; And all the question ( wrangle e ...
... form the best , Where all must fall or not coherent be , And all that rises , rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reasoning life , ' tis plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as man ; And all the question ( wrangle e ...
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... poetry , the adverb is frequently used in the adjective form . 141. But does not nature err from this gracious end ? viz : the blessings enumerated above . " And what created perfect ? " Why then man 10 ESSAY ON MAN .
... poetry , the adverb is frequently used in the adjective form . 141. But does not nature err from this gracious end ? viz : the blessings enumerated above . " And what created perfect ? " Why then man 10 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... forms , Who knows , but He whose hand the lightning Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce ambition in a Cæsar's mind , Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind ? From pride , from pride our very reasoning ...
... forms , Who knows , but He whose hand the lightning Who heaves old ocean , and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce ambition in a Cæsar's mind , Or turns young Ammon loose to scourge mankind ? From pride , from pride our very reasoning ...
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... Form'd but to check , deliberate , and advise . Self - love , still stronger , as its object's nigh ; Reason's at distance , and in prospect lie ; That sees immediate good by present sense ; Reason , the future and the consequence . 70 ...
... Form'd but to check , deliberate , and advise . Self - love , still stronger , as its object's nigh ; Reason's at distance , and in prospect lie ; That sees immediate good by present sense ; Reason , the future and the consequence . 70 ...
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act the soul adverb agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature DANIEL CLARK Decius divine earth EPISTLE Ev'n false mirror fame fear fix'd fool Form'd gives gods govern happier happiness heaven hope human imitating God instinct joy or curse Julius Cæsar kings knave laws Learn learn'd lights and shades live look lord LORD BOLINGBROKE man's mankind Marseilles means mind monarch mood nature's nature's law never note to line noun object pain participle passion planets Pleas'd pleasure poet prep preposition pride reign rill rise self-love sense sire slave sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee thing thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong