An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeHyde, Lord & Duren, 1846 - 72 Seiten |
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... rise ; Laugh where we must , be candid where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to man . I. Say , first , of God above , or man below , What can we reason , but from what we know ? Of man , what see we but his station here , 10 16 ...
... rise ; Laugh where we must , be candid where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to man . I. Say , first , of God above , or man below , What can we reason , but from what we know ? Of man , what see we but his station here , 10 16 ...
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... 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'er so long ) Is only this , if God has placed him wrong ? Respecting man ...
... 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'er so long ) Is only this , if God has placed him wrong ? Respecting man ...
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... rise ; 66 My footstool earth , my canopy the skies . " 140 But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep 145 Towns to one grave , whole ...
... rise ; 66 My footstool earth , my canopy the skies . " 140 But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep 145 Towns to one grave , whole ...
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... rise , and half to fall : Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; 6 10 15 EPISTLE II . L. 1. Know thyself , was the favorite maxim of the an- cients . It is here , perhaps , more confined in its meaning . Know thy weakness ...
... rise , and half to fall : Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; 6 10 15 EPISTLE II . L. 1. Know thyself , was the favorite maxim of the an- cients . It is here , perhaps , more confined in its meaning . Know thy weakness ...
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... rise and there descend , Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas , what wonder ! man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is ...
... rise and there descend , Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas , what wonder ! man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is ...
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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