An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. To which is Added, the Universal PrayerHenry Benton, 1835 - 67 Seiten |
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... began a thousand years ago . III . Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The ...
... began a thousand years ago . III . Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below ? 80 The ...
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... began " And what created perfect ? " Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates : and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much ...
... began " And what created perfect ? " Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates : and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of showers and sunshine , as of man's desires ; As much ...
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... ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! 24 235 Vast chain of being ! which from God began , ESSAY ON MAN . 17.
... ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! 24 235 Vast chain of being ! which from God began , ESSAY ON MAN . 17.
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... began , Nature's ethereal , human , angel , man , Beast , bird , fish , insect ! what no eye can see , No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From thee to nothing - On superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours Or ...
... began , Nature's ethereal , human , angel , man , Beast , bird , fish , insect ! what no eye can see , No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee ; From thee to nothing - On superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours Or ...
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... began : Mem'ry and forecast just returns engage , That pointed back to youth , this on to age ; While pleasure , gratitude , and hope combin❜d , Still spread the int'rest , and preserv'd the kind . IV . Nor think , in nature's state ...
... began : Mem'ry and forecast just returns engage , That pointed back to youth , this on to age ; While pleasure , gratitude , and hope combin❜d , Still spread the int'rest , and preserv'd the kind . IV . Nor think , in nature's state ...
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline cause chain comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE II Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n giv❜n gives 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 Pleas'd pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper religion rest 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