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Page vii
... Religion , and particularly on the nature and origin of Evil , had been for some time prevalent in society when Pope began the composition of this Essay . He thus sought to adapt himself to the age , but his mind had little aptitude for ...
... Religion , and particularly on the nature and origin of Evil , had been for some time prevalent in society when Pope began the composition of this Essay . He thus sought to adapt himself to the age , but his mind had little aptitude for ...
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... Religion , were intended to draw mankind away from Revelation , and to represent the whole course of things as a necessary concatena- tion of indissoluble fatality and it is undeniable that in many passages a religious eye may easily ...
... Religion , were intended to draw mankind away from Revelation , and to represent the whole course of things as a necessary concatena- tion of indissoluble fatality and it is undeniable that in many passages a religious eye may easily ...
Page xix
... religion . The bulk of mankind is not likely to be very wise or very good : and I know not whether there are not many states of life in which all knowledge , less than the highest wisdom , will produce discontent and danger . I believe ...
... religion . The bulk of mankind is not likely to be very wise or very good : and I know not whether there are not many states of life in which all knowledge , less than the highest wisdom , will produce discontent and danger . I believe ...
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... religious obligation , and with very faint distinctions of right and wrong , can never be safely employed , or confi- dently trusted : they can be honest only by obstinacy , and dili- gent only by compulsion or caprice . Some ...
... religious obligation , and with very faint distinctions of right and wrong , can never be safely employed , or confi- dently trusted : they can be honest only by obstinacy , and dili- gent only by compulsion or caprice . Some ...
Page xxi
... religion , nor even life itself , being of any importance , but as they contribute to its production . All these are in themselves neither good nor evil : happiness alone is their great end , and they are desirable only as they tend to ...
... religion , nor even life itself , being of any importance , but as they contribute to its production . All these are in themselves neither good nor evil : happiness alone is their great end , and they are desirable only as they tend to ...
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Page 20 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd 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...
Page 4 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 58 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 10 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 64 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale?
Page 14 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Page 55 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Page 9 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 16 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures 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...
Page 10 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the 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