 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,...  An essay on man. Cornish ed - Page 32by Alexander Pope - 1798Full view - About this book
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...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...god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; fiom but to die, and reasoning but to err; 10 AKke in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
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 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...'•> 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...his mind, Or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reasoning but to err. And as he hath given this description of Man, for the very contrary purpose to... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
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 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
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 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
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 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
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 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...god, or heast ; Jn douht ln-; mind or hody to prefer; ISorn hut to dio, and reasoning hut to err; 10 Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much ; Clions of thought and passion, all coofused i Still hy himself ahused or disahosed ; Created h.slf... | |
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...«ilh too much knowledge for the sceptic side, ''I'-li too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, 2* He hangs between, in doubt to act, or rest, In doubt...God or beast: In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Bora but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too... | |
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