An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... 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 , or here or there ? The blest to - day , is as completely so 14 EP . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
... 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 , or here or there ? The blest to - day , is as completely so 14 EP . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
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Alexander Pope. The blest to - day , is as completely so As who began a thousand years ago . 3. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate , All but the page prescribed , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what ...
Alexander Pope. The blest to - day , is as completely so As who began a thousand years ago . 3. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate , All but the page prescribed , their present state : From brutes what men , from men what ...
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... blest : The soul , uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , and hears him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far ...
... blest : The soul , uneasy , and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds , and hears him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far ...
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... blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be Gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order , sins against th ' Eternal Cause . 5. Ask for what ...
... blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be Gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order , sins against th ' Eternal Cause . 5. Ask for what ...
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... blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction , which thou canst not see : All discord , harmony not ...
... blest as thou canst bear : Safe in the hand of one disposing pow'r , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction , which thou canst not see : All discord , harmony not ...
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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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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 108 - Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind.
Página 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...
Página 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.