An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeClark, Austin & Company, 1852 - 72 pages |
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... the God be known through worlds , & c . A preposition always shows relation between the word which it governs and some other - -a verb , noun , or an ad- jective . He , who through vast immensity can pierce , See 4 ESSAY ON MAN .
... the God be known through worlds , & c . A preposition always shows relation between the word which it governs and some other - -a verb , noun , or an ad- jective . He , who through vast immensity can pierce , See 4 ESSAY ON MAN .
Page 7
... without any word expressed to govern them -a prep . being understood . 80. Being is a noun- - Who could suffer ( i . e . bear the ourden of ) existence here below . which The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to - ESSAY ON MAN . 7.
... without any word expressed to govern them -a prep . being understood . 80. Being is a noun- - Who could suffer ( i . e . bear the ourden of ) existence here below . which The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to - ESSAY ON MAN . 7.
Page 8
... govern both the nom . and obj . of pro- nouns , but the nom . only of nouns . 87. Who relates to Heaven , which is here used for God , and God , in the end of the line , is connected with who , by the conj . as - or , those nouns which ...
... govern both the nom . and obj . of pro- nouns , but the nom . only of nouns . 87. Who relates to Heaven , which is here used for God , and God , in the end of the line , is connected with who , by the conj . as - or , those nouns which ...
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... governed by it , or by a prep . expressed or understood . 179-181 . Nature , being kind without profusion , assigned the proper organs , & c . , and compensated each seeming want . 184. To add and to abate seem to imply a passive signi ...
... governed by it , or by a prep . expressed or understood . 179-181 . Nature , being kind without profusion , assigned the proper organs , & c . , and compensated each seeming want . 184. To add and to abate seem to imply a passive signi ...
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... govern all : 55 coveries , describe or fix one movement of his own mind ? Could he explain his own beginning , or his end ? 50. Of all , which our vices have created or formed into arts . 52. Which served the past , and must serve the ...
... govern all : 55 coveries , describe or fix one movement of his own mind ? Could he explain his own beginning , or his end ? 50. Of all , which our vices have created or formed into arts . 52. Which served the past , and must serve the ...
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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