An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeHyde, Lord & Duren, 1846 - 72 Seiten |
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... weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ally 256 The common interest , or endear the tie . To these we owe true friendship , love sincere , Each home - felt joy that life inherits here ; Yet from ...
... weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ally 256 The common interest , or endear the tie . To these we owe true friendship , love sincere , Each home - felt joy that life inherits here ; Yet from ...
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... weak control ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows , And helps , another creature's wants or woes . Say , will the falcon , stooping from above , Smit with her varying plumage , spare the ...
... weak control ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows , And helps , another creature's wants or woes . Say , will the falcon , stooping from above , Smit with her varying plumage , spare the ...
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... weak , the weak too strong . Yet go ! and thus o'er all the creatures sway , Thus let the wiser make the rest obey : And for those arts mere instinct could afford , Be crown'd as monarchs , or as gods ador'd . " 196 V. Great nature ...
... weak , the weak too strong . Yet go ! and thus o'er all the creatures sway , Thus let the wiser make the rest obey : And for those arts mere instinct could afford , Be crown'd as monarchs , or as gods ador'd . " 196 V. Great nature ...
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... weak to bend , the proud to pray , To power unseen , and mightier far than they : She , from the rending earth , and bursting skies , Saw gods descend , and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful , there the blest abodes ; Fear ...
... weak to bend , the proud to pray , To power unseen , and mightier far than they : She , from the rending earth , and bursting skies , Saw gods descend , and fiends infernal rise : Here fix'd the dreadful , there the blest abodes ; Fear ...
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... weaker may surprise , a stronger take ? His safety must his liberty restrain : All join to guard what each desses to gain . Forc'd into virtue thus , by self - defence , Ev'n kings learn'd justice and benevolence : Self - love forsook ...
... weaker may surprise , a stronger take ? His safety must his liberty restrain : All join to guard what each desses to gain . Forc'd into virtue thus , by self - defence , Ev'n kings learn'd justice and benevolence : Self - love forsook ...
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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