Essai sur l'hommeInstitution d'enseignement universel, 1850 - 82 pages |
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... creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state ; From brules what men , from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below ? 80 The lamb , thy riot dooms to bleed to - day , Had he ...
... creatures hides the book of Fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state ; From brules what men , from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below ? 80 The lamb , thy riot dooms to bleed to - day , Had he ...
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... creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet cry , If Man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod ,! Re - judge his ...
... creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet cry , If Man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If Man alone ingross not Heav'n's high care , Alone made perfect here , immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod ,! Re - judge his ...
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... creatures if he call , Say what their use , had he the pow'rs of all ? Nature to these , without profusion , kind , The proper organs , proper pow'rs assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , 180 Here with degrees of ...
... creatures if he call , Say what their use , had he the pow'rs of all ? Nature to these , without profusion , kind , The proper organs , proper pow'rs assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , 180 Here with degrees of ...
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... creature ! mount where Science guides , Go , measure earth , weigh air , and state the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run , Correct old time , and regulate the Sun ; Go , soar with Plato to th ' empyreal sphere , To the ...
... creature ! mount where Science guides , Go , measure earth , weigh air , and state the tides ; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run , Correct old time , and regulate the Sun ; Go , soar with Plato to th ' empyreal sphere , To the ...
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... creature owns it in the first degree , But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he ; Ev'n those who dwell benath its very zone , Or never feel tho rage , or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard ...
... creature owns it in the first degree , But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he ; Ev'n those who dwell benath its very zone , Or never feel tho rage , or never own ; What happier natures shrink at with affright , The hard ...
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alike bear Beast began bêtes blessing blest bliss blood body bonheur breath catch Catilina chain ciel cieux common créatures death Dieu diff'rent draw earth ease embrace equal eternal Ev'n ev'ry faith fear feel fix'd fool form'd gen'ral gives Gods grows half Happiness happy heart Heav'n heureux hommes Hope int'rest kind kings knowledge l'amour l'amour-propre l'homme l'orgueil laws Learn learn'd less Look makes Man alone Man's mankind mind nature Nature's nature's law never o'er Orcades passions pleasure pow'rs pride raison reason rise scarce Self-love sense seul shade soul sphere spread strength strong taught things thinks thou thro true truth turns tyrant vanity vertu vice Virtue weak Whate'er whole wise wrong
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Page 8 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 6 - Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 76 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know), " Virtue alone is happiness below.' The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 26 - Parts it may ravage, but preserves the whole. On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but Passion is the gale ; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.
Page 2 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore, Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; 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.
Page 16 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth! Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures...
Page 36 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Page 74 - Tis but to know how little can be known, To see all others' faults, and feel our own ; Condemn'd in business or in arts to drudge, Without a second, or without a judge. Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land ? All fear, none aid you, and few understand : Painful pre-eminence!
Page 16 - Were we to press, inferior might on ours ; Or in the full creation leave a void, Where, one step broken, the great scale's destroy'd : From Nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to th' amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Page 4 - Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less? Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade? Or ask of yonder argent fields above, Why JOVE'S Satellites are less than JOVE?