An Essay on Man: To which are Added, the Universal Prayer, and Other Valuable Pieces, Selected from His WorksM'Carty and Davis, 1821 - 72 pages |
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... pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; 190 No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly ...
... pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; 190 No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly ...
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... pride ! impiety ! IX . What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or hand to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to ...
... pride ! impiety ! IX . What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to tread , Or hand to toil , aspir'd to be the head ? What if the head , the eye , or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ? Just as absurd for any part to ...
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... 290 All discord , harmony , not understood ; All partial evil , universal good : And , spite of pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , Whatever is , is right . EPISTLE II . OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
... 290 All discord , harmony , not understood ; All partial evil , universal good : And , spite of pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , Whatever is , is right . EPISTLE II . OF THE NATURE AND STATE OF MAN 16 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... 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 reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether he ...
... 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 reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether he ...
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... pride ; Deduct what is but vanity , or dress , 45 Or learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch of human brain , Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pair : Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all ...
... pride ; Deduct what is but vanity , or dress , 45 Or learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch of human brain , Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pair : Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all ...
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act the soul alike ambition angels beast behold blessing blind bliss breath chain cobbler confest confin'd creature crown'd death E'er earth ease EPISTLE eternal Ev'n ev'ry eyes faith fall fame father fear fix'd flood flow'r fool foreign hands thy forever form'd future GANSEVOORT giv❜n gives glory God's Gods gold gradation happiness heart heav'n Heroes hope human imperfection indolent instinct justice kings knave laws Learn learn'd living Lord man's mankind MESSIAH mind mix'd monarch moral mountains mourn nature nature's nature's law never Nymph o'er pain passions peace perfect plac'd Pleas'd pleasure pow'r pride proud Rhine rill rise self-love and social sense seraph shade shine sire skies slaves sphere spleen springs taught tear tempests thee thine things thou thro TILDEN toil trembles truth tyrant virtue's weak Whate'er whole wings wise
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Page 64 - 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 58 - 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.
Page 59 - 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 16 - Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,
Page 6 - 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 9 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored 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 17 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, 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...
Page 50 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 63 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.
Page 10 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th