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... arts of human life were copied from the instinctive operations of other animals ; that , if the world be made for man , it may be said that man was made for geese . To these profound principles of natural knowledge are added some moral ...
... arts of human life were copied from the instinctive operations of other animals ; that , if the world be made for man , it may be said that man was made for geese . To these profound principles of natural knowledge are added some moral ...
Página xv
... art to cover his whole piece with one single colour , the most beautiful he could com- pose . Had He confined himself to such , nothing could have existed but demi - gods , or archangels , and then all inferior orders must have been ...
... art to cover his whole piece with one single colour , the most beautiful he could com- pose . Had He confined himself to such , nothing could have existed but demi - gods , or archangels , and then all inferior orders must have been ...
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... arts neglected , and lands uncultivated , and so a universal penury have over- whelmed all , instead of now and then pinching a few . Hence , by the bye , appears the great excellence of charity , by which men are enabled , by a ...
... arts neglected , and lands uncultivated , and so a universal penury have over- whelmed all , instead of now and then pinching a few . Hence , by the bye , appears the great excellence of charity , by which men are enabled , by a ...
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... art unknown to thee ; All chance , direction which thou canst not see ; 290 All discord , harmony not understood ; All partial evil , universal good ; And , spite of pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , Whatever is ...
... art unknown to thee ; All chance , direction which thou canst not see ; 290 All discord , harmony not understood ; All partial evil , universal good ; And , spite of pride , in erring reason's spite , One truth is clear , Whatever is ...
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... arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which served the past , and must the times to come ! II . Two principles in human nature reign , - Self - love to urge , and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a bad we call ...
... arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which served the past , and must the times to come ! II . Two principles in human nature reign , - Self - love to urge , and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good , nor that a bad we call ...
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Página 20 - Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; 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 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...
Página 4 - 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...
Página 58 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancy'd life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 10 - Where slaves once more their native land behold, No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. To Be, contents his natural desire, He asks no Angel's wing, no Seraph's fire; But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Página 64 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. Oh! 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?
Página 14 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 55 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Página 9 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página 16 - Vast chain of being! which from God began; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee; From thee to nothing...
Página 10 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th