An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 Seiten |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-4 von 4
Seite iv
... imperfect , system of ethics . This I might have done in prose ; but I chose verse , ar even rhyme , for two reasons . The one will appear obv ous ; that principles , maxims , or precepts , so written , bot strike the reader more ...
... imperfect , system of ethics . This I might have done in prose ; but I chose verse , ar even rhyme , for two reasons . The one will appear obv ous ; that principles , maxims , or precepts , so written , bot strike the reader more ...
Seite v
... imperfect , but a being suited to his place and rank in the creation , agreeable to the general order of things , and conformable to ends and relations to him un- known , ver . 35 , & c . III . That it is partly upon his igno- ance of ...
... imperfect , but a being suited to his place and rank in the creation , agreeable to the general order of things , and conformable to ends and relations to him un- known , ver . 35 , & c . III . That it is partly upon his igno- ance of ...
Seite 12
... imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say rather , man's as perfect as he ought ; 70 His knowledge measur'd to his state and place , His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect in a certain sphere , What matter soon or late ...
... imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say rather , man's as perfect as he ought ; 70 His knowledge measur'd to his state and place , His time a moment , and a point his space . If to be perfect in a certain sphere , What matter soon or late ...
Seite 64
... imperfect conceptions of my transla- tors , who have not sufficiently informed themselves of my real sentiments . The many additional embellishments , which my piece has received from the version of M. D. R- , have not done an honour to ...
... imperfect conceptions of my transla- tors , who have not sufficiently informed themselves of my real sentiments . The many additional embellishments , which my piece has received from the version of M. D. R- , have not done an honour to ...
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives 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 pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 10 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Seite 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Seite 17 - 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.
Seite 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Seite 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Seite 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths 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 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Seite 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Seite 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Seite 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...