An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeHyde, Lord & Duren, 1846 - 72 Seiten |
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... happier island in the watery waste , 106 [ Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold ; To be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But ...
... happier island in the watery waste , 106 [ Where slaves once more their native land behold , No fiends torment , no Christians thirst for gold ; To be , contents his natural desire , He asks no angel's wing , no seraph's fire ; But ...
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... happiness , Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? 150 As much that end a constant course requires 13 Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; ine As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , for . As men forever temperate ...
... happiness , Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? 150 As much that end a constant course requires 13 Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; ine As much eternal springs and cloudless skies , for . As men forever temperate ...
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... happiness should not in the least be affected by our outward circumstances . 10. Man is the only terrestrial being capable of reason- ing , or of deducing remoter truths from those which are known and admitted ; yet , by assuming false ...
... happiness should not in the least be affected by our outward circumstances . 10. Man is the only terrestrial being capable of reason- ing , or of deducing remoter truths from those which are known and admitted ; yet , by assuming false ...
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... happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . 225 230 VI . Virtuous and vicious every man must be ; Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree ; 208. As light and shade invade each other's bounds ...
... happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard inhabitant contends is right . 225 230 VI . Virtuous and vicious every man must be ; Few in th ' extreme , but all in the degree ; 208. As light and shade invade each other's bounds ...
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... happiness are illusory , unless founded on a rational reference to the concerns of another world . 269. The starving chymist - reference is here made to the alchymists who , for a long time , were employed in vain search after the ...
... happiness are illusory , unless founded on a rational reference to the concerns of another world . 269. The starving chymist - reference is here made to the alchymists who , for a long time , were employed in vain search after the ...
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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