An Essay on Man: Enlarged and Improved by the Author, Together with His MS. Additions and Variations as in the Last Edition of His Works. With the Notes of William, Lord Bishop of GloucesterW. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777 - 124 pages |
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... most compaffionate , on fome occafions , to reftrain their mirth : And that human crimes are fo flagitious , that the moft candid have feldom an oppor- tunity , on this fubject , to exercise their virtue . VER . 19 , 20. Of Man , what ...
... most compaffionate , on fome occafions , to reftrain their mirth : And that human crimes are fo flagitious , that the moft candid have feldom an oppor- tunity , on this fubject , to exercise their virtue . VER . 19 , 20. Of Man , what ...
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... most logical fupport of all that had preceded . For the Poet having , as we fay , laboured through his Epiftle to prove , that every thing in the Universe tends , by a forefeen contrivance , and a prefent direction of all its parts , to ...
... most logical fupport of all that had preceded . For the Poet having , as we fay , laboured through his Epiftle to prove , that every thing in the Universe tends , by a forefeen contrivance , and a prefent direction of all its parts , to ...
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... most ex- travagant and fenfeless inferences ; fuch as the unreality of matter ; the reality of space ; the fervility of the will , & c . The reafon of this fudden fall out of full light into utter darkness appears not to refult from the ...
... most ex- travagant and fenfeless inferences ; fuch as the unreality of matter ; the reality of space ; the fervility of the will , & c . The reafon of this fudden fall out of full light into utter darkness appears not to refult from the ...
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... most sublime image- ry that poetry could conceive or paint . For the author is here only fhewing the providential issue of the Paf- fjons , and how , by God's gracious difpofition , they are turned away from their natural bias , to ...
... most sublime image- ry that poetry could conceive or paint . For the author is here only fhewing the providential issue of the Paf- fjons , and how , by God's gracious difpofition , they are turned away from their natural bias , to ...
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... most defired ; and confequently , the purfuit of that will be the ruling paffion . That the difference of force in this ruling paffion fhall , at firft , perhaps , be very small , or even imperceptible ; but Nature , Habit , Imagina ...
... most defired ; and confequently , the purfuit of that will be the ruling paffion . That the difference of force in this ruling paffion fhall , at firft , perhaps , be very small , or even imperceptible ; but Nature , Habit , Imagina ...
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ALEXANDER POPE Angels balance of Happiness beafts Beaſt becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft blifs Catiline Caufe Cauſe chufe conclufion confequence confifts creature defcribed earth Efay Effay epiftle ev'ry evil exerciſe exprefs faid fame fays fecond fenfe ferves fev'ral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt focial folly fome fool form'd foul ftill fubject fublime fuch fuffer fuppofed fupport future ftate fyftem gives Happineſs hath Heav'n himſelf Hope human Inftinct int'reft itſelf juft juſt lefs less than Angel Lord Man's Manichæan Mankind mind moral moſt muft muſt natural evil Nature Nature's NOTES obfervation paffage paffions perfect Philofophical Plato pleaſure Poet pow'rs praiſe prefent pride purpoſe Reaſon reft rife ruling Angels Self-love Sir Ifaac ſmall ſphere ſpread ſtate ſtill thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tion truth univerfal uſe VARIATIONS Vice Virtue wants whofe whole whoſe wife Wiſdom