An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme , The EP . I. 23 ESSAY ON MAN .
... range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme , The EP . I. 23 ESSAY ON MAN .
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Alexander Pope. 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 ...
Alexander Pope. 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 ...
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... extreme of vice , was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ? at York , ' tis on the Tweed ; - In Scotland at the Orcades ; and there , At Greenland , Zembla , or the Lord knows where . No creature owns it in the first degree , But ...
... extreme of vice , was ne'er agreed : Ask where's the north ? at York , ' tis on the Tweed ; - In Scotland at the Orcades ; and there , At Greenland , Zembla , or the Lord knows where . No creature owns it in the first degree , But ...
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... extreme , but all in the degree : The rogue and fool , by fits , is fair and wise ; And ev'n the best , by fits , what they despise . " Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; Each ...
... extreme , but all in the degree : The rogue and fool , by fits , is fair and wise ; And ev'n the best , by fits , what they despise . " Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , vice or virtue , self directs it still ; Each ...
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... extreme they fall , To trust in ev'ry thing ; or doubt of all . Who thus define it , say they more or less Than this , that happiness is happiness ? Take Nature's path , and mad Opinion's leave ; All states can reach it , and all heads ...
... extreme they fall , To trust in ev'ry thing ; or doubt of all . Who thus define it , say they more or less Than this , that happiness is happiness ? Take Nature's path , and mad Opinion's leave ; All states can reach it , and all heads ...
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act the soul alike ambition angels beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Cæsar's Catiline cause chain chain of love charity complaints against Providence confest creature death diff'rent earth EPISTLE ESSAY Eternal Etna Ev'n ev'ry extreme fame fix'd fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness hath heav'n Hope humbly human instinct int'rest kings knave knowledge Learn learn'd less than angel Lord LORD BOLINGBROKE luxury man's mankind mind monarch moral evil natural evil nature nature's nature's law nautilus never o'er pain passions peace perfect plac'd Pleas'd pleasure poet pow'r pride principle reason rest rill rise self-love and social sense seraph shade shew Sir Isaac Newton sire Socrates sphere superior taught thee things thinks thou thro true truth tyrant universal vanity vice or virtue virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
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Seite 32 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, 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 100 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do — This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Seite 28 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Seite 71 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Seite 35 - Two Principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, 111.
Seite 74 - Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; "° Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Seite 78 - 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 competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Seite 108 - Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind.
Seite 96 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Seite 76 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right and meaning well ; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense and common ease. Remember man, " the Universal Cause Acts not by partial but by general laws," And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.