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" 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... "
Essay on man, and The universal prayer - Page 45
by Alexander Pope - 1860 - 47 pages
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...sage, Jehovah, Jovet or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, j Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, That thou art Good, And that myself...me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; IP And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will. What Conscience dictates to be done,...
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A collection of hymns and sacred poems

Collection - 1779 - 198 pages
...right to ftay { If I am wrong, thy grace impart, To find that better way ! 5. What confcience diftates to be done, Or warns me not to do ; This teach me more th?n hell to fhun, That more than heav'n purfue ! 6. Save me alike -from fooiiili pride, Or impious...
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Elegant Extracts; Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry ..., Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...Ice the good from ill ; And, binding nature fnft in fate, Left free the human will. What conference dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than htll to ihun ; That more than heav'n purl'uc. Wha,t bleflings thy free bounty give» Let me not call...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1796 - 264 pages
...good from ill ; 10 And binding Nature faft in Fate, Left free the human will. What confcience dilates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more then hell to man, 15 That more than heav'n purfue. What Mefilngs thy free bounty gives Let me not caft...
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The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ...

Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...fee the good from ill ; A nd, binding nature faft in fate, Left free the human will. What confcience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more then Hell to fhun. That, more than Heav'n purfue. What bleffings thy free bounty gives, Let me not...
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Reports of Civil and Criminal Cases Decided by the ..., Volume 39; Volume 146

Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 970 pages
...he then directed that there should be put in his will at some appropriate place the following lines: "What conscience dictates to be done, or warns me not to do, is more than Hell to shun or Heaven pursue." The appropriate place for this epitaph, according to the...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...sage, . Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, S Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art Good, And that myself...gave me in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; 10 And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will, What conscience dictates to be done,...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...understood \Vlin all my sense confm'd To know hut this, that thou art good, And that myself am hlind. Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And, hinding-nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates tg he done. Or warns...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 3

Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...contradicts this modest avowal of ignorance, and affirms thus : ' Yet gave me, in tliii dart ettaie, To see the good from ill ; And, binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. That part of mankind, who deny the power of ail men to distinguish, in this absolute way, evil from...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...savage, and by sage, Thou great first cause, least understood; Who all my sense confin'd To know hat this, that thou art good. And that myself am blind....in this dark estate. To see the good from ill; And, hinding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns...
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