An Essay on ManMaynard, Merrill & Company, 1890 - 64 Seiten |
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... pride which leads him to com- plain when he finds that everything has not been ordered for his benefit . The reasoning of the Essay on Man is feeble , the phi- losophy either trite or inconsistent , or obscure . But the less the ...
... pride which leads him to com- plain when he finds that everything has not been ordered for his benefit . The reasoning of the Essay on Man is feeble , the phi- losophy either trite or inconsistent , or obscure . But the less the ...
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... pride of aim- ing 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 the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection ...
... pride of aim- ing 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 the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection ...
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... pride of kings . Let us , since life can little more supply fhan just to look about us and to die , Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild , where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ...
... pride of kings . Let us , since life can little more supply fhan just to look about us and to die , Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild , where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ...
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... pride and dullness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end Why doing , suff'ring , checked , impelled ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Say rather man's as perfect as he ought : 65 Then say not man's ...
... pride and dullness comprehend His actions ' , passions ' , being's , use and end Why doing , suff'ring , checked , impelled ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . Say rather man's as perfect as he ought : 65 Then say not man's ...
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... pride , in reasoning pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies ! Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods if angels fell , Aspiring to be ...
... pride , in reasoning pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies ! Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods if angels fell , Aspiring to be ...
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adjective agreeing ALEXANDER POPE alike Alludes ancient angels apposition ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast began blessing blest bliss breathes Cæsar Catiline chain Cicero confest connected creature Decius Dunciad earth embrace Epistle II Essay etc.-POPE eternal ethereal faith fame feel fool formed French Revolution gives govern happier happiness Heaven hope human imperfection indefinite pronoun infinitive mode instinct Julius Cæsar kings laws learned light lives Lord man's mankind means mind moral nature Nature's never nominative note to line noun numbers o'er object pain participle passions perfect Philomela planets pleasure poet poetical Pompey Pope preposition pride principle pronoun relative pronoun rise ruling angels Self-love and social sense shade sire soul spheres Stoics substantive phrase taught thee things thou thy reason tion toil touch truth Turenne Twickenham verb vice virtue weak Whate'er whole wise wrong