An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 pages |
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... 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 confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come ...
... 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 confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come ...
Page 9
... gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet say , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heaven's high care , of the be note Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; the ...
... gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet say , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not heaven's high care , of the be note Alone made perfect here , immortal there ; the ...
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... the effect of these passing effluvia so powerful , as to make us die of the smell of a rose in aromatic pain ? ele Alike in what it gives , and what denies 2 ESSAY ON MAN . 13 Is not to act or think beyond mankind; ...
... the effect of these passing effluvia so powerful , as to make us die of the smell of a rose in aromatic pain ? ele Alike in what it gives , and what denies 2 ESSAY ON MAN . 13 Is not to act or think beyond mankind; ...
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... gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental powers ascends ; Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 ue What modes of sight ...
... gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental powers ascends ; Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 ue What modes of sight ...
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... Gives all the strength and color of our life , Pleasures are ever in our hands and eyes ; pleasures ttien And when in act they cease , in prospect rise : but A their virtue is fixed . It ( their virtue ) is all contracted , retiring to ...
... Gives all the strength and color of our life , Pleasures are ever in our hands and eyes ; pleasures ttien And when in act they cease , in prospect rise : but A their virtue is fixed . It ( their virtue ) is all contracted , retiring to ...
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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