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" 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. "
Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Page 5
by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pages
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...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.1 Epistle i. Line 13. Heaven from all creatures hides the hook of Fate. Epistle i. Line 77. Pleased...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...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. POPE. How mean the order and perfection sought In the best product of the human thought, Compared to...
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...Bathurst. At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads. — MILTON. \ Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. — POPE : Essay on Man. And justify the ways of God to man. — MILTON : Paradise Lost. On Butler...
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Life as it is: Or, Matters and Things in General: Containing, Amongst Other ...

J. W. M. Breazeale - Indians of North America - 1842 - 266 pages
...nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies," Lash evil " manners living us they rise, Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. " ONE hundred years ago the territory that now lies within the geographical limits of the State of...
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The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered

Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...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. (Essay on Man, i, lines 6- 16) Milton's Paradise as "scene of Man" becomes a gentleman's estate and...
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Words of Wisdom

William Safire, Leonard Safir - Education - 1990 - 436 pages
...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. — Alexander Pope I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. —...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; (Fr. Epistle I) 59 Laugh where we must, FaFP; ON; OBNV; OxBChV Pippa Passes 66 (Fr. Epistle I) 60 Say first, of God above, or Man below, What can we reason, but from what we know?...
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Arabula: The Divine Guest

Andrew J Davis - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 412 pages
...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." The central principle was PBOGBESS. This principle is the " Philosopher's Stone," which converts all...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, ept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that 8891 An Essay on Man Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns. 8892...
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The Ascent of Science

Brian L. Silver - Science - 2000 - 553 pages
...Europe in translation, was typical in this respect. In it Pope says that we will "Laugh where we may, be candid where we can, / But vindicate the ways of God to man." He then goes on to speak very much of man and very little of God. A deist would have felt reasonably...
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