An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape , And shew'd a Newton as we shew an ape . Could he , whose rules the rapid comet bind , Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? E Who saw its fires here rise and there descend ...
... nature's law , Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape , And shew'd a Newton as we shew an ape . Could he , whose rules the rapid comet bind , Describe or fix one movement of his mind ? E Who saw its fires here rise and there descend ...
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... 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 ... nature's kindly law , Pleas'd 48 ΕΡ . ΙΙ . ESSAY ON MAN .
... 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 ... nature's kindly law , Pleas'd 48 ΕΡ . ΙΙ . ESSAY ON MAN .
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Alexander Pope. Behold the child , by nature's kindly law , Pleas'd with a rattle , tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper ...
Alexander Pope. Behold the child , by nature's kindly law , Pleas'd with a rattle , tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight , A little louder , but as empty quite : Scarfs , garters , gold , amuse his riper ...
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... laws preserve each state ; " Laws wise as nature , and as fix'd as fate . " In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , " Entangle justice in her net of law , " And right , too rigid , harden into wrong ; " Still for the strong too weak ...
... laws preserve each state ; " Laws wise as nature , and as fix'd as fate . " In vain thy reason finer webs shall draw , " Entangle justice in her net of law , " And right , too rigid , harden into wrong ; " Still for the strong too weak ...
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... nature law . Thus states were form'd ; the name of king un- known ; Till common int'rest plac'd the sway in one . ' Twas virtue only ( or in arts or arms , Diffusing blessings , or averting harms ) The same which in a sire the sons obey ...
... nature law . Thus states were form'd ; the name of king un- known ; Till common int'rest plac'd the sway in one . ' Twas virtue only ( or in arts or arms , Diffusing blessings , or averting harms ) The same which in a sire the sons obey ...
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act the soul alike ambition angels beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Cæsar's Catiline cause chain chain of love charity complaints against Providence confest creature death earth EPISTLE ESSAY Eternal Etna Ev'n ev'ry extreme fame fear fix'd fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness hath heav'n Hope humbly human instinct int'rest kings knave knowledge Learn learn'd less than angel Lord LORD BOLINGBROKE luxury man's mankind mind monarch moral evil natural evil nature nature's nature's law nautilus never o'er pain passions peace perfect plac'd Pleas'd pleasure poet pow'r pride principle reason rest restrain rill rise self-love and social sense seraph shade shew Sir Isaac Newton sire Socrates sphere superior taught thee things thinks thou thro true truth tyrant universal vanity vice or virtue virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
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Page 34 - 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 102 - 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 30 - 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 73 - 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 37 - 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 76 - 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 80 - 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 110 - Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind.
Page 98 - 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 78 - 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.