An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch of human brain , Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the ...
... learning's luxury , or idleness ; Or tricks to shew the stretch of human brain , Mere curious pleasure , or ingenious pain ; Expunge the whole , or lop th ' excrescent parts Of all our vices have created arts ; Then see how little the ...
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... learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot , Wild nature's vigour working at the root . What crops of wit and honesty appear From spleen , from obstinacy , hate , or fear ! See anger , zeal and fortitude supply ; Ev'n ...
... learn to bear ; The surest virtues thus from passions shoot , Wild nature's vigour working at the root . What crops of wit and honesty appear From spleen , from obstinacy , hate , or fear ! See anger , zeal and fortitude supply ; Ev'n ...
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... 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 , EP . II . 47 ESSAY ON MAN .
... 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 , EP . II . 47 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... learn'd is happy nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n , The poor contents him with the care of heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero ...
... learn'd is happy nature to explore , The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty giv'n , The poor contents him with the care of heav'n . See the blind beggar dance , the cripple sing , The sot a hero ...
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... Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; " Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; 66 Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; " Learn of the mole to plow , the worm to weave ; " Learn of the little nautilus to ...
... Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; " Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; 66 Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; " Learn of the mole to plow , the worm to weave ; " Learn of the little nautilus to ...
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Page 32 - 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much...
Page 100 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do — This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Page 28 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 71 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 35 - Two Principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, 111.
Page 74 - Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; "° Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 78 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Page 108 - Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind.
Page 96 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 76 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right and meaning well ; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense and common ease. Remember man, " the Universal Cause Acts not by partial but by general laws," And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.