An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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... providence , both as to our present ar future state , ver . 281 , & c . to the end . ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE II . Of the Nature and State of Man , with respect to himself a an Individual . 1. The business of man not to pry into God , but to ...
... providence , both as to our present ar future state , ver . 281 , & c . to the end . ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE II . Of the Nature and State of Man , with respect to himself a an Individual . 1. The business of man not to pry into God , but to ...
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... Providence , by the two passions of hope and fear , ver . 70. III . What the happiness of individuals is , as far as is consistent with the constitution of this world ; and that the good man has here the advantage , ver . 77. The error ...
... Providence , by the two passions of hope and fear , ver . 70. III . What the happiness of individuals is , as far as is consistent with the constitution of this world ; and that the good man has here the advantage , ver . 77. The error ...
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... eternal , ver . 309. That the perfection of Hirtue and Happiness consists in a conformity to the order Providence here , and a resignation to it here and here- ter , ver . 326 . AN Essay on Man . EPISTLE I. AWAKE ! my THE DESIGN . ix.
... eternal , ver . 309. That the perfection of Hirtue and Happiness consists in a conformity to the order Providence here , and a resignation to it here and here- ter , ver . 326 . AN Essay on Man . EPISTLE I. AWAKE ! my THE DESIGN . ix.
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... Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such , Say , here he gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust ; Yet cry , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not Heaven's high ...
... Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such , Say , here he gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust ; Yet cry , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone engross not Heaven's high ...
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... the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still The whispering zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise , 205 Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
... the music of the spheres , How would he wish that Heav'n had left him still The whispering zephyr , and the purling rill ? Who finds not Providence all good and wise , 205 Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
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Page 10 - 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...
Page 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Page 17 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
Page 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Page 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Page 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...