An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke : to which is Added, The Universal PrayerSilas Andrus, 1832 - 67 pages |
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... proper end and purpose of its being . The science of human nature is , like all other sciences , reduced to a few clear points : There are not many certain truths in this world . It is therefore in the anatomy of the mind , as in that ...
... proper end and purpose of its being . The science of human nature is , like all other sciences , reduced to a few clear points : There are not many certain truths in this world . It is therefore in the anatomy of the mind , as in that ...
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... proper rewards , but often inconsistent with , or destructive of , virtue , ver . 167. That even these can make no man happy without virtue : Instanced in riches , ver . 183. Honours , ver . 193. Nobility , ver . 205. Great- ness , ver ...
... proper rewards , but often inconsistent with , or destructive of , virtue , ver . 167. That even these can make no man happy without virtue : Instanced in riches , ver . 183. Honours , ver . 193. Nobility , ver . 205. Great- ness , ver ...
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... proper organs , proper pow'rs assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , 175 180 Here , with degrees of swiftness , there , of force ; All in exact proportion to the state ; Nothing to add , and nothing to abate . Each beast ...
... proper organs , proper pow'rs assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , 175 180 Here , with degrees of swiftness , there , of force ; All in exact proportion to the state ; Nothing to add , and nothing to abate . Each beast ...
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... 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 , 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in ...
... 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 , 285 Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear : Safe in ...
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... 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's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between in ...
... 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's side , With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between in ...
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE II Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets Pleas'd pleasure POPE pow'rs pride principle proper rest rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant UNIVERSAL PRAYER virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 49 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 19 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 24 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.
Page 54 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round. Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe.
Page 51 - 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 moved, 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...
Page 13 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar ; Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always To be blest : The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 39 - In Faith and Hope the world will disagree; But all Mankind's concern is Charity: All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God, that bless Mankind, or mend. Man, like the gen'rous vine supported lives; The strength he gains is from th
Page 45 - Go, like the Indian, in another life Expect thy dog, thy bottle, and thy wife ; As well as dream such trifles are assign'd, As toys and empires, for a godlike mind : Rewards, that either would to virtue bring No joy, or be destructive of the thing : How oft...
Page 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Page 54 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.