An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
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... moral duty , to enforce any moral precept , or to examine the perfection or
imperfection of any creature whatsoever , it is Recessary first to know what
condition and relation it is placed in , and what is the proper end and purpose of
its being .
... moral duty , to enforce any moral precept , or to examine the perfection or
imperfection of any creature whatsoever , it is Recessary first to know what
condition and relation it is placed in , and what is the proper end and purpose of
its being .
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Nature to these , without profusion kind , The proper organs , proper pow'rs '
assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , Here , with degrees of
swiftness , there , of force ; All in exact proportion to the state ; Nothing to add ,
and ...
Nature to these , without profusion kind , The proper organs , proper pow'rs '
assign'd ; Each seeming want compensated of course , Here , with degrees of
swiftness , there , of force ; All in exact proportion to the state ; Nothing to add ,
and ...
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The proper study of mankind is man . Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state , A
being darkly wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's
side , 5 With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between : in ...
The proper study of mankind is man . Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state , A
being darkly wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's
side , 5 With too much weakness for the stoic's pride , He hangs between : in ...
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God , in the nature of each being , founds Its proper bliss , and sets its proper
bounds : 110 But , as he fram'd the whole , the whole to bless , On mutual wants
built mutual happiness : So from the first , eternal order ran , And - creature link'd
to ...
God , in the nature of each being , founds Its proper bliss , and sets its proper
bounds : 110 But , as he fram'd the whole , the whole to bless , On mutual wants
built mutual happiness : So from the first , eternal order ran , And - creature link'd
to ...
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IT may be proper to observe , that some passages in the preceding Essay ,
having been unjustly suspected of a tendency towards fate or naturalism , the
author composed this Prayer as the sum of all , to show that his system was
founded in ...
IT may be proper to observe , that some passages in the preceding Essay ,
having been unjustly suspected of a tendency towards fate or naturalism , the
author composed this Prayer as the sum of all , to show that his system was
founded in ...
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Page 10 - 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 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Page 17 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
Page 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
Page 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
Page 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
Page 50 - 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 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 51 - 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 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
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| Title | An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal Prayer |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | S. Andrus, 1824 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 1 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 67 pages |
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