Moral essays |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 40
Seite 2
The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more Perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfe tion ...
The pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more Perfection , the cause of Man's error and misery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfe tion ...
Seite 6
The Men he writes against , he frequently informs us , are such as weigh their opinion against Providence ( v 114 ) , such as cry , if Man's unhappy , God's unjust ( * 118 ) or such as fall into the notion , that Vice and Virtue there ...
The Men he writes against , he frequently informs us , are such as weigh their opinion against Providence ( v 114 ) , such as cry , if Man's unhappy , God's unjust ( * 118 ) or such as fall into the notion , that Vice and Virtue there ...
Seite 14
... as to the good man's this is so far from fuppofing hopes of a retribution , those ftill that particulars shall suffer for remain in their original force : a general good , that it is efFor our idea of God's justice , sential to this ...
... as to the good man's this is so far from fuppofing hopes of a retribution , those ftill that particulars shall suffer for remain in their original force : a general good , that it is efFor our idea of God's justice , sential to this ...
Seite 16
... Yet cry , If Man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the God of God .
... Yet cry , If Man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod , Re - judge his justice , be the God of God .
Seite 17
Ak for what that Earth is man's foot - stool , end , & c . ] If there be any fault his canopy the Skies , and the in these lines , it is not in the ge - heavenly bodies lighted up prinneral sentiment , but a want of cipally for his use ...
Ak for what that Earth is man's foot - stool , end , & c . ] If there be any fault his canopy the Skies , and the in these lines , it is not in the ge - heavenly bodies lighted up prinneral sentiment , but a want of cipally for his use ...
Was andere dazu sagen - Rezension schreiben
Es wurden keine Rezensionen gefunden.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action acts againſt appears beauty beſt cauſe Characters COMMENTARY common directs effects employed Epiſtle equal ev'ry evil examples extreme fall fame firſt follow folly fool fortune give given Happineſs hath heart Heav'n himſelf Hope human juſt kind King knowledge laſt laws leſs light lines live Lord Man's Mankind manner means mind moral moſt muſt Nature needs never NOTES object obſerve Paſſion perfect pleaſure poet Pow'r Pride principle Providence Reaſon regard Religion Riches riſe ruling ſame ſays ſecond ſee Self-love ſenſe ſet ſhall ſhews ſhould Society ſome ſtate ſtill ſubject ſuch ſupport ſyſtem Taſte tell theſe things thoſe thought thro tion true truth turns univerſal uſe VARIATIONS Vice Virtue wealth whole whoſe wiſe
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 80 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
Seite 109 - 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 26 - Planets and suns run lawless through the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on world ; Heaven's whole foundations to their centre nod, And Nature trembles to the throne- of God. All this dread order break — for whom ? for thee ? Vile worm ! —oh madness ! pride ! impiety ! IX.
Seite 27 - The great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the Earth, as in th...
Seite 150 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heaven pursue.
Seite 10 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Seite 80 - Praise ye him sun and moon : praise him all ye stars of light. Praise him ye heavens of heavens, and ye waters that be above the heavens ; let them praise the name of the Lord ; for he commanded, and they were created.
Seite 65 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Seite 38 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Seite 25 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd: From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And, if each system in gradation roll Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Moral essays Band 3 von The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death: Together with the Commentaries and Notes of Mr. Warburton, William Warburton |
| Autor/in | Alexander Pope |
| Verlag | J. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson, and S. Draper, 1751 |
| Zitat exportieren | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |