 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 páginas
...greater good in the moral, as appears from the sublime images in the following lines : , If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 636 páginas
...has infinitely greater credit with them : Pope upon this subject elegantly observes: If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he whose hand the lightnings form, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storm, Pour'd... | |
 | David Hume - 1804 - 592 páginas
...oppression ? But the vices and imperfections of mtit are also comprehended in the order of the universe : Jf plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Let this be allowed ; and my own vices will also be ^ part of the same order. To one who said, that... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 páginas
...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightuing forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 páginas
...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wiugs the storms,... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus, Arthur Murphy - 1811 - 518 páginas
...accidentia. Seneca, De Constantia Sapientis, cap. 9. Pope has said in the same spirit : If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Section LXXVI. (a) The Treviri and Lingones had been persuaded by Cerealis to lay down their arms.... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 páginas
...Examen de 1'Essai, &c. bUt but to the perfection of the universe in general. So that, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? On which the Examiner thus descants, — " These lines *' have no sense but on the system of Leibnitz,... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 páginas
...79. f Examsn de 1'Essai, &c. but to the perfection of the universe in general. So that, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? On which the Examiner thus descants, — " These lines " have no sense but on the system of Leibnitz,... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus - 1813 - 444 páginas
...accidentia. Seneca, De Constantia Sapientis, cap. 9. Pope has said in the same spirit: If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design. Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE? SECTION LXXVI. (a) The Treviri and Lingones had been persuaded by Cerealis to lay down their arms.... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 564 páginas
...oppression ? But the Vices and imperfections of men are also comprehended in the order of the universe .- : If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE? Let this be allowed ; and my own vices will also be a part of the same order. To one who said, that... | |
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Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind... 
