An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord BolingbrokeClark & Maynard, 1867 - 72 Seiten |
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... rise ; Laugh where we must , be candid where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to man . I. Say , first , of God above , or man below , What can we reason , but from what we know ? Of man , what see we but his station here , 10 16 ...
... rise ; Laugh where we must , be candid where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to man . I. Say , first , of God above , or man below , What can we reason , but from what we know ? Of man , what see we but his station here , 10 16 ...
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... rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reasoning life , ' tis plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as man ; And all the question ( wrangle e'er so long ) Is only this , if God has placed him wrong ? Respecting man ...
... rise in due degree ; Then , in the scale of reasoning life , ' tis plain , There must be , somewhere , such a rank as man ; And all the question ( wrangle e'er so long ) Is only this , if God has placed him wrong ? Respecting man ...
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... rise ; " My footstool earth , my canopy the skies . " 140 But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep 145 Towns to one grave , whole ...
... rise ; " My footstool earth , my canopy the skies . " 140 But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend , When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep 145 Towns to one grave , whole ...
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... rise , and half to fall : Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; 6 10 15 EPISTLE II . L. 1. Know thyself , was the favorite maxim of the an- cients . It is here , perhaps , more confined in its meaning . Know thy weakness ...
... rise , and half to fall : Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; 6 10 15 EPISTLE II . L. 1. Know thyself , was the favorite maxim of the an- cients . It is here , perhaps , more confined in its meaning . Know thy weakness ...
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... rise and there descend , Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas , what wonder ! man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is ...
... rise and there descend , Explain his own beginning or his end ? Alas , what wonder ! man's superior part Uncheck'd may rise , and climb from art to art ; But when his own great work is but begun , What reason weaves , by passion is ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature DANIEL CLARK Decius degree divine earth EPISTLE ethereal Etna 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 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 pours prep preposition pride reign rill rise self-love and social sense sire slave sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee thing thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne Twixt tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong
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Seite 14 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal •wood; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Seite 10 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Seite 16 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Seite 8 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar: Wait the great teacher, death, and God adore! What future bliss he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest. The soul uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Seite 10 - In 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 angels, men rebel : And who but wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against the eternal Cause.
Seite 18 - 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 reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much...
Seite 40 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Seite 6 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then shall man's pride and...
Seite 19 - Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all. Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Seite 17 - Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.