An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 pages |
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... connected with the substantive phrase , little more , by the conj . thun . 10. Open and covert are adj . supplying the place of their nouns ( perhaps parts ) understood ; a usage common in poetry . 18. From what can we reason , & c . 21 ...
... connected with the substantive phrase , little more , by the conj . thun . 10. Open and covert are adj . supplying the place of their nouns ( perhaps parts ) understood ; a usage common in poetry . 18. From what can we reason , & c . 21 ...
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... connected with who , by the conj . as - or , those nouns which follow the conj . as , and have a like meaning with those to which they are con- nected , may be considered in apposition with the same . 32. Wait for the great teacher . By ...
... connected with who , by the conj . as - or , those nouns which follow the conj . as , and have a like meaning with those to which they are con- nected , may be considered in apposition with the same . 32. Wait for the great teacher . By ...
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... connected with it . 193-204 . These lines have very often been misunder- stood , and turned out of their true meaning . The poet adverts to the five senses , in order ; asking first , Why man has not a microscopic eye , i . e . an eye ...
... connected with it . 193-204 . These lines have very often been misunder- stood , and turned out of their true meaning . The poet adverts to the five senses , in order ; asking first , Why man has not a microscopic eye , i . e . an eye ...
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... connects , and equals all . 280 X. Cease , then , nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame . Know thy own point : This kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit . In ...
... connects , and equals all . 280 X. Cease , then , nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame . Know thy own point : This kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heaven bestows on thee . Submit . In ...
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... Connects each being , greatest with the least ; Made beast in aid of man , and man of beast ; All serv'd , all serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on , and where it ends unknown . Has God , thou fool ! work'd solely for thy ...
... Connects each being , greatest with the least ; Made beast in aid of man , and man of beast ; All serv'd , all serving : nothing stands alone ; The chain holds on , and where it ends unknown . Has God , thou fool ! work'd solely for thy ...
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act the soul agreeing alike ambition Ammon angels apposition beast blessing blest bliss breath Cæsar Catiline chain confest connected creature Decius degree divine earth EPISTLE ethereal Ev'n false mirror fame fear fix'd fool Form'd gives gods govern happier happiness Heaven hope human imitating God instinct joy or curse Julius Cæsar kings knave laws Learn learn'd live look lord man's mankind Marseilles means mind monarch nature's nature's law never note to line noun object pain participle passion planets Pleas'd pleasure poet pours prep preposition pride pronoun reign rill rise Rubicon self-love and social sense sire slave Socrates sphere stoics stuck o'er substantive phrase taught tence thee things thou art thy reason toil touch truth Turenne Twixt tyrant understood verb virtue's virtuous weak Whate'er whole wise wrong