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AN

ESSAY

ON

MAN.

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ESSAY

ON

MAN.

BY ALEXANDER POPE.

INSCRIBED TO

HENRY SAINT-JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE.

Cornish Edition.

HELSTON:

PRINTED AT THE STANNARY PRESS, BY THOMAS FLINDELL.

1798,

2799.

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THE

DESIGN.

HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon's expression) "come home to men's business and bosoms," I thought it more satisfactory to begin with considering man in the abstract, his nature, and his state: since, to prove any moral duty, to enforce any moral precept, or to examine the perfection or imperfection of any creature whatsoever, it is

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