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AN

ESSAY

ON

MAN

With fome

HUMOUROUS VERSES
on the

DEATH of Dean SWIFT,
Written by Himself.

DUBLIN:

Printed, & Sold by the Booksellers of
LONDON & WESTMINSTER.

MDCCXXXVI.

GODLEIA

2APR1932

LIBRARY

THE

CONTENTS.

EPISTLE I.

Of the NATURE and STATE OF MAN, with
respect to the UNIVERSE.

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F Man in the Abstract. We can judge only
with regard to our System, being ignorant of the

Relations of Systems and Things, VERSE 17, .

Man is not therefore to be deem'd Imperfect, but a

Being fuited to his Place and Rank in the Creation, a-

greeable to the General Order of Things, and con-

formable to Ends and Relations to him unknown, 35,

&c. It is partly upon this Ignorance of future Events,

and partly upon the Hope of a Future State, that all

his Happiness in the Present depends, 73, &c. His

Pride, in aiming at more Knowledge, and pretending

to more Perfection, the Cause of Error and Misery,

120. The Impiety of putting himself in the Place of

God, and judging of the Fitness, or Unfitness, Perfec-

tion, or Imperfection, Justice, or Injustice of His Dif-

penfations, 109. The Abfurdity of conceiting himself

the Final Cause of the Creation, or expecting that

Perfection in the Moral World which is not in the

Natural, 127 to 164. The Unreasonableness of his

Complaints against Providence, while on the one Hand

he demands the Perfections of the Angels, on the other,

the bodily Qualifications of the Brutes, 165. That

the Gift of Reafon alone countervails all the latter,

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