An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke |
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... true ; I found I could express them more shortly this way than in prose itself ! and nothing is more certain than that much of the force , as well as grace of arguments or instructions , depends on their conciseness . I was unable to ...
... true ; I found I could express them more shortly this way than in prose itself ! and nothing is more certain than that much of the force , as well as grace of arguments or instructions , depends on their conciseness . I was unable to ...
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... true religion and go- vernment on their first principle , ver . 285. Mixt govern- ment , ver . 288. Various forms of each , and the true end of all , ver , 300 , & c . ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE IV . Of the Nature and State THE DESIGN .
... true religion and go- vernment on their first principle , ver . 285. Mixt govern- ment , ver . 288. Various forms of each , and the true end of all , ver , 300 , & c . ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE IV . Of the Nature and State THE DESIGN .
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... true , From pois nous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine , Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine ! ' Twixt that and reason , what a nice barrier ! For ever sep'rate , yet for ever ...
... true , From pois nous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine , Compar'd , half - reas'ning elephant , with thine ! ' Twixt that and reason , what a nice barrier ! For ever sep'rate , yet for ever ...
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... true friendship , love sincere , 255 Each home - felt joy that life inherits here : Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those int'rests to resign : Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To ...
... true friendship , love sincere , 255 Each home - felt joy that life inherits here : Yet from the same we learn , in its decline , Those joys , those loves , those int'rests to resign : Taught half by reason , half by mere decay , To ...
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... True faith , true policy , united ran , 230 235 That was but love of God , and this of man . 240 Who first taught souls enslav'd , and realms undone , Th ' enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all nature's laws ...
... True faith , true policy , united ran , 230 235 That was but love of God , and this of man . 240 Who first taught souls enslav'd , and realms undone , Th ' enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all nature's laws ...
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast bless'd blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline cause chain comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets Pleas'd pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Page 19 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 20 - With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and...
Page 53 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Page 12 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 10 - 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 13 - 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 13 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
Page 54 - 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 54 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe.
Page 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?