E S S A Y ON JAN, BY ALEXANDER POPE. INSCRIBED TO HENRY SAINT-JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE. Cornish Edition. HELSTON: 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 satisfuctory 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 |