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... laws Of ORDER , sins against th ' Eternal Cause . V. Ask for what end the heav'nly bodies shine , Earth for whose use ? Pride answers , « < " Tis for mine : > For me kind Nature wakes her genial pow'r , » Suckles each herb , and spreads ...
... laws Of ORDER , sins against th ' Eternal Cause . V. Ask for what end the heav'nly bodies shine , Earth for whose use ? Pride answers , « < " Tis for mine : > For me kind Nature wakes her genial pow'r , » Suckles each herb , and spreads ...
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... laws ; >> Th ' exceptions few ; some change since all began : » And what created perfect ? » → Why then Man ? - If the great end be human Happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can Man do less ? As much that end a constant course ...
... laws ; >> Th ' exceptions few ; some change since all began : » And what created perfect ? » → Why then Man ? - If the great end be human Happiness , Then Nature deviates ; and can Man do less ? As much that end a constant course ...
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... of late they saw A moral Man unfold all Nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape , And shew'd a NEWTON as we shew an Ape , --- Maître , esclave de tout , pensant trop ou trop 40 AN ESSAY ON MAN , EPISTLE II .
... of late they saw A moral Man unfold all Nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape , And shew'd a NEWTON as we shew an Ape , --- Maître , esclave de tout , pensant trop ou trop 40 AN ESSAY ON MAN , EPISTLE II .
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... law , Pleas'd with a rattle , tickled with a straw : Some livelier play - thing gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage , And beads and pray'r - books are the toys ...
... law , Pleas'd with a rattle , tickled with a straw : Some livelier play - thing gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper stage , And beads and pray'r - books are the toys ...
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... laws . In all the madness of superfluous health , ' The trim of pride , the impudence of wealth , Let this great truth be present night and day : But most be present , if we preach or pray . Look round our World , behold the chain of ...
... laws . In all the madness of superfluous health , ' The trim of pride , the impudence of wealth , Let this great truth be present night and day : But most be present , if we preach or pray . Look round our World , behold the chain of ...
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Page 4 - AWAKE, my St John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot ; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 38 - The 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 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...
Page 136 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 40 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all' things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world...
Page 14 - 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.
Page 12 - 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 202 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Page 30 - 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 106 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 206 - Through this day's life or death. This day be bread and peace my lot ; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.