An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Smith, 1824 - 72 Seiten |
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Seite 36
... serves always , reason never long : One must go right , the other may go wrong . See then the acting and comparing powers One in their nature , which are two in ours ! And reason raise o'er instinct as you can , In this ' tis God ...
... serves always , reason never long : One must go right , the other may go wrong . See then the acting and comparing powers One in their nature , which are two in ours ! And reason raise o'er instinct as you can , In this ' tis God ...
Seite 44
... serves one will , when many wills rebel ? How shall he keep , what , sleeping or awake , A weaker may surprise , a stronger take ? His safety must his liberty restrain : All join to guard what each desires to gain . Forc'd into virtue ...
... serves one will , when many wills rebel ? How shall he keep , what , sleeping or awake , A weaker may surprise , a stronger take ? His safety must his liberty restrain : All join to guard what each desires to gain . Forc'd into virtue ...
Seite 45
... serve , not suffer , strengthen , not invade ; More powerful each as needful to the rest , And , in proportion as it blesses , blest : Draw to one point , and to one centre bring Beast , man , or angel , servant , lord , or king . For ...
... serve , not suffer , strengthen , not invade ; More powerful each as needful to the rest , And , in proportion as it blesses , blest : Draw to one point , and to one centre bring Beast , man , or angel , servant , lord , or king . For ...
Seite 48
... serve , and that to shun mankind ; 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 ev'n virtue vain ...
... serve , and that to shun mankind ; 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 ev'n virtue vain ...
Seite 65
... serves the virtuous mind to wake , As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd , a circle straight succeeds , 365 Another still , and still another spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbor , first it will embrace ; His ...
... serves the virtuous mind to wake , As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd , a circle straight succeeds , 365 Another still , and still another spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbor , first it will embrace ; His ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature DANIEL CLARK Decius divine earth EPISTLE ethereal Ev'n false mirror fame fear fix'd fool Form'd gives gods govern happier happiness HARVARD COLLEGE Heaven hope human imitating God instinct joy or curse Julius Cæsar kings knave laws Learn learn'd live look lord LORD BOLINGBROKE 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 prep preposition pride reign rise self-love and social sense SHAPLEIGH 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