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Page xxi
... serve to show how the most common notion may be swelled in sound , and diffused in bulk , till it shall perhaps astonish the author himself . ' Happiness is the only thing of real value in existence : neither riches , nor power , nor ...
... serve to show how the most common notion may be swelled in sound , and diffused in bulk , till it shall perhaps astonish the author himself . ' Happiness is the only thing of real value in existence : neither riches , nor power , nor ...
Page xxviii
... serve any purpose of use or pleasure ? The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life , or better to endure it : and how will either of those be put more in our power by him who tells us that we are puppets , of ...
... serve any purpose of use or pleasure ? The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life , or better to endure it : and how will either of those be put more in our power by him who tells us that we are puppets , of ...
Page xxx
... serve the most beneficial purposes , contrary to their own malevolent tendencies and in- clinations ; and thus private vices become public benefits , by the force only of accidental circumstances . But this impeaches not the truth of ...
... serve the most beneficial purposes , contrary to their own malevolent tendencies and in- clinations ; and thus private vices become public benefits , by the force only of accidental circumstances . But this impeaches not the truth of ...
Page xxxvii
... served to make this system more inconsistent . For how can man be a ' chaos of thought and passion all confused , ' and yet be ' as perfect a being as he ought to be ' ? 3. The doctrine obviously intended to be inculcated in this Essay ...
... served to make this system more inconsistent . For how can man be a ' chaos of thought and passion all confused , ' and yet be ' as perfect a being as he ought to be ' ? 3. The doctrine obviously intended to be inculcated in this Essay ...
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... serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere ... Serves to second , & c . ] Serves also some secondary pur- pose . 58. Sphere . ] Rank or order . 64. Egypt's god ...
... serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere ... Serves to second , & c . ] Serves also some secondary pur- pose . 58. Sphere . ] Rank or order . 64. Egypt's god ...
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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