An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to Henry St. John, Lord BolingbrokeW. & H. Merriam, 1844 - 48 pages |
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... wrong ? Respecting man , whatever wrong we call , May , must be right , as relative to all . In human works , though labored on with pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain : 40 45 50 In God's one single can its end produce ...
... wrong ? Respecting man , whatever wrong we call , May , must be right , as relative to all . In human works , though labored on with pain , A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain : 40 45 50 In God's one single can its end produce ...
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... would devour , This , taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r . Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . 80 35 85 90 III . Modes of self - loye the passions we 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
... would devour , This , taste the honey , and not wound the flow'r . Pleasure , or wrong or rightly understood , Our greatest evil , or our greatest good . 80 35 85 90 III . Modes of self - loye the passions we 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... wrong . See then the acting and comparing powers , One in their nature , which are two in ours ! And reason raise o'er instinct as you can , In this ' tis God directs , in that ' tis man . 90 95 Who taught the nations of the field and ...
... wrong . See then the acting and comparing powers , One in their nature , which are two in ours ! And reason raise o'er instinct as you can , In this ' tis God directs , in that ' tis man . 90 95 Who taught the nations of the field and ...
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... law , And right , too rigid , harden into wrong ; Still for the strong too weak , the weak too strong . 185 190 Yet go ! and thus o'er all the creatures sway 3 * ESSAY ON MAN . 29 Who, foe to nature, hears the general groan...
... law , And right , too rigid , harden into wrong ; Still for the strong too weak , the weak too strong . 185 190 Yet go ! and thus o'er all the creatures sway 3 * ESSAY ON MAN . 29 Who, foe to nature, hears the general groan...
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... wrong whose life is in the right ; & In faith and hope the world will disagree , But all mankind's concern is charity ; 305 All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God , that bless mankind , or mend . Man , like ...
... wrong whose life is in the right ; & In faith and hope the world will disagree , But all mankind's concern is charity ; 305 All must be false that thwart this one great end ; And all of God , that bless mankind , or mend . Man , like ...
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act the soul angels assign'd beast began behold bless'd blessing blest blind bliss blood breath Cæsar Cataline chain confest creature crown'd death destroy E'en earth ease EPISTLE equal eternal ethereal faith fall fame father fear feel fix'd folly fool form'd frame gain gives glory God's gods gradation grows happiness heart Heaven hero hope human hurl'd imperfect indolent instinct operate alike kings laws Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch mortal mourn nature nature's nature's law never o'er pain passion peace perfect Pleas'd pleasure pride principle proper proud rest rill rise Self-love sense shade sire skies slaves society sphere spread taught tempest thee thine things thou thy reason toil true Twas tyrant universal UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN vice virtue virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong
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Page 47 - FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 44 - 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 8 - In pride, in reasoning 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 the Eternal Cause.
Page 48 - Or aught thy goodness lent. Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 13 - 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, Heaven bestows on thee.
Page 33 - 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 6 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 5 - That Wisdom infinite must form the best, Where all must full or not coherent be, And all that rises, rise in due degree ; Then, in the scale of reasoning life, 'tis plain, There must be, somewhere, such a rank as Man: And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong?
Page 24 - See dying vegetables life sustain, See life dissolving vegetate again: All forms that perish other forms supply; (By turns we catch the vital breath, and die) Like bubbles on the sea of Matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return.
Page 7 - Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven; Some safer world in depth of woods embraced, Some happier island in the watery waste, 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.