 Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...  The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 221by Alexander Pope - 1890 - 550 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...not to any acquired authority of Conscience, in one of the stanzas of his Universal Prayer : — " What Conscience dictates to be done Or warns me not...than hell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue." Barclay says, " The Conscience of man is-the seat and throne of God, in him, of which God is the alone... | |
 | James Nichols - 1824 - 554 pages
...diverting them into a purer channel : On this subject their Creed is well expressed by the Deistical poet : What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me NOT...than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. This ill-defined faculty called " conscience," is, in their system, to achieve every tiling, — to... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...omitted by the Compiler, as not being adapted, in his judgment, for class-reading in our public schools.] Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good...binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. 3 What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun,... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 578 pages
...not to any acquired authority of Conscience, in one of the stanzas of his Universal Prayer : — " What Conscience dictates to be done Or warns me not...This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heav'u pursue." Barclay says, " The Conscience of man is the seat and throne of God, in him, of which... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1824 - 478 pages
...his Universal Prayer, though, perhaps, he may have expressed it rather too strongly, where he says, " What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me...teach me more than hell to shun, " That, more than heaven pursue." The reader will observe, that this way of treating the subject of morals, by an appeal... | |
 | Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...understood : Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that thou art good; And that myself am blind : Vet gave me in this dark estate, To see the good from...binding nature fast in fate, Left free, the human will. \Vhat conscience dictates to be done. Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...every motion in the natural, and every determination and action in the moral world, are directed by What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, 15 That, more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For... | |
 | 1825 - 132 pages
...Jove, or Lord. • . " f • Thou great first-cause, least understood, : Who all my sense confin'd ; To know but this, that thou art good, And that myself...binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. i What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do ; _. This bids me more than hell to shun,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou GREAT FIRST CAUSE, least understood, Who all my sense connn'd To know but this, that Thou art good, * And that myself...the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, I. oil free the human will. What conscience ^dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...saint, by savage, and by eage, Jehovah, Jove, our Lord ! Thou Great First Cause, least understood ; Who all my sense confined To know but this, That thou...myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To eee the good from ill ; And, binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will : What conscience... | |
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