An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 Seiten |
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... means , or right ? Of vice or virtue , whether blest or curst , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? 90 Count all th ' advantage prosperous vice attains , " Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad ...
... means , or right ? Of vice or virtue , whether blest or curst , Which meets contempt , or which compassion first ? 90 Count all th ' advantage prosperous vice attains , " Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains : And grant the bad ...
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... means obtains , Or , failing , smiles in exile or in chains , Like good Aurelius let him reign , or bleed Like Socrates , that man is great indeed . What's fame ? a fancied life in others ' breath , A thing beyond us , ev'n before our ...
... means obtains , Or , failing , smiles in exile or in chains , Like good Aurelius let him reign , or bleed Like Socrates , that man is great indeed . What's fame ? a fancied life in others ' breath , A thing beyond us , ev'n before our ...
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... means a small number of , and a great many , signifies a great number of . Many , followed by a , is used distributively , agreeing with a singular noun— thus , full many a gem . Of the substantive , besides the nominative case inde ...
... means a small number of , and a great many , signifies a great number of . Many , followed by a , is used distributively , agreeing with a singular noun— thus , full many a gem . Of the substantive , besides the nominative case inde ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature Decius degree divine earth EPISTLE ethereal 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 live look lord man's mankind Marseilles means mind monarch nature's nature's law never note to line noun object pain participle passion planets Pleas'd pleasure poet pours prep preposition pride pronoun reign rill rise Rubicon self-love and social sense sire slave Socrates sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee things thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne Twixt tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong