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... mankind by attending to the large , open , and perceptible parts , than by studying too much fuch finer nerves and vef- fels , the conformations and ufes of which will for ever escape our obfervation . The difputes are all upon these ...
... mankind by attending to the large , open , and perceptible parts , than by studying too much fuch finer nerves and vef- fels , the conformations and ufes of which will for ever escape our obfervation . The difputes are all upon these ...
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... mankind . ” VER . 35. Prefumptuous Man ! ] Voltaire , tom . iv . p . 227. has the following remarkable words : I own it flatters me to see that Pope has fallen upon the very same sentiment which I had en- tertained many years ago : Vous ...
... mankind . ” VER . 35. Prefumptuous Man ! ] Voltaire , tom . iv . p . 227. has the following remarkable words : I own it flatters me to see that Pope has fallen upon the very same sentiment which I had en- tertained many years ago : Vous ...
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... mankind , a fatisfac- tory account may then be given of natural and moral evil , and every untoward phenomenon be explained and adjusted . A less evil may then be chofen , in order to avoid a greater inconve- niencies be fubmitted to ...
... mankind , a fatisfac- tory account may then be given of natural and moral evil , and every untoward phenomenon be explained and adjusted . A less evil may then be chofen , in order to avoid a greater inconve- niencies be fubmitted to ...
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... mankind a religious fear , and a foreboding of a future state . The divine fays , he had this from revelation : the deift , that it fupplies the want of one ; that it has kept the world in awe from the beginning of the creation ...
... mankind a religious fear , and a foreboding of a future state . The divine fays , he had this from revelation : the deift , that it fupplies the want of one ; that it has kept the world in awe from the beginning of the creation ...
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... mankind , and how limited . " Milton , in book v . copies from the Rabbinical writers , from the fathers , and fome of the schoolmen , the causes of the rebellion of Satan and his affociates ; but feems more particularly to have in view ...
... mankind , and how limited . " Milton , in book v . copies from the Rabbinical writers , from the fathers , and fome of the schoolmen , the causes of the rebellion of Satan and his affociates ; but feems more particularly to have in view ...
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Page 20 - 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 to-day, 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 56 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 170 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 48 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 127 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some...
Page 100 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Page 63 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call...
Page 13 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise, Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 130 - But mutual wants this happiness increase, All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, Bliss is the same in subject or in king; In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend : Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing as one common soul.
Page 70 - 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.