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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... , another race . 130 A longer care man's helpless kind demands ; That longer care contracts more lasting bands . Reflection , reason , still the ties improve , At once extend the int'rest and the love ; With ESSAY ON MAN . 33.
... , another race . 130 A longer care man's helpless kind demands ; That longer care contracts more lasting bands . Reflection , reason , still the ties improve , At once extend the int'rest and the love ; With ESSAY ON MAN . 33.
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... kind . 140 145 IV . Nor think , in nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of nature was the reign of God : Self - love and social at her birth began , Union the bond of all things , and of man . 150 Pride then was not ; nor arts ...
... kind . 140 145 IV . Nor think , in nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of nature was the reign of God : Self - love and social at her birth began , Union the bond of all things , and of man . 150 Pride then was not ; nor arts ...
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... kind , Poet or patriot , rose but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow drew : 1 Taught power's due use to people and to kings , 333 ...
... kind , Poet or patriot , rose but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow drew : 1 Taught power's due use to people and to kings , 333 ...
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... kind : No bandit fierce , no tyrant mad with pride , No cavern'd hermit , rests self - satisfied ; Who most to shun or hate mankind pretend , Seek an admirer , or would fix a friend : Abstract what others feel , what others think , All ...
... kind : No bandit fierce , no tyrant mad with pride , No cavern'd hermit , rests self - satisfied ; Who most to shun or hate mankind pretend , Seek an admirer , or would fix a friend : Abstract what others feel , what others think , All ...
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... kind , 190 Whose life is healthful , and whose conscience clear , Because he wants a thousand pounds a year . Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part , there all the honour lies . Fortune in men has some small diff ...
... kind , 190 Whose life is healthful , and whose conscience clear , Because he wants a thousand pounds a year . Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part , there all the honour lies . Fortune in men has some small diff ...
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acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity 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 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 pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 10 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Seite 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Seite 17 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
Seite 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Seite 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Seite 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Seite 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Seite 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Seite 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Seite 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...