An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeS. Andrus, 1828 - 67 Seiten |
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... toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind . Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd , to mourn the tasks or ...
... toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind . Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd , to mourn the tasks or ...
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... toil , the sages indolence , The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike , find reason on their side . Th ' eternal art , educing good from ill , Grafts on this passion our best principle : 175 " Tis thus the mercury of man ...
... toil , the sages indolence , The monk's humility , the hero's pride , All , all alike , find reason on their side . Th ' eternal art , educing good from ill , Grafts on this passion our best principle : 175 " Tis thus the mercury of man ...
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... toil , We ought to blame the culture , not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere , 15 ' Tis nowhere to be found , or ev'ry where : ' Tis never to be bought , but always free , 20 20 And , fled from monarchs , St. John ...
... toil , We ought to blame the culture , not the soil : Fix'd to no spot is happiness sincere , 15 ' Tis nowhere to be found , or ev'ry where : ' Tis never to be bought , but always free , 20 20 And , fled from monarchs , St. John ...
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... toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and nature meant to mere mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys of sense , Lie in three words , health , peace and ...
... toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . Know , all the good that individuals find , Or God and nature meant to mere mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys of sense , Lie in three words , health , peace and ...
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... virtue bread ? 150 That , vice may merit , ' tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil . The knave deserves it , when he tempts the main , Where folly fights for kings , or dives for gain 44 ESSAY ON MAN .
... virtue bread ? 150 That , vice may merit , ' tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil . The knave deserves it , when he tempts the main , Where folly fights for kings , or dives for gain 44 ESSAY ON MAN .
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast bless'd blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline cause chain comets confest creature death diff'rence divine Doller earth ease EPISTLE II Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd gain gen'ral giv'n gives happiness HARVARD COLLEGE heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets Pleas'd pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant UNIVERSAL PRAYER virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise