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... equal . The heat and vigour of the succeeding summer of youth ripens for us new pleasures , the blooming maid , the nightly revel , and the jovial chase ; the serene autumn of com- plete manhood feasts us with the golden harvests of our ...
... equal . The heat and vigour of the succeeding summer of youth ripens for us new pleasures , the blooming maid , the nightly revel , and the jovial chase ; the serene autumn of com- plete manhood feasts us with the golden harvests of our ...
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... found means of enjoying , to which we have nothing equal or similar . They now and then catch a mortal proud of his parts , and flattered either by the submission of those who court his kindness REVIEW OF JENYNS ON EVIL . xxvii.
... found means of enjoying , to which we have nothing equal or similar . They now and then catch a mortal proud of his parts , and flattered either by the submission of those who court his kindness REVIEW OF JENYNS ON EVIL . xxvii.
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... equal to the first . The author has indeed engaged in a disqui- sition in which we need not wonder if he fails , in the solution b of questions on which philosophers have employed their abili- ties REVIEW OF JENYNS ON EVIL . xxxiii.
... equal to the first . The author has indeed engaged in a disqui- sition in which we need not wonder if he fails , in the solution b of questions on which philosophers have employed their abili- ties REVIEW OF JENYNS ON EVIL . xxxiii.
Página xxxvi
... equal or alike , even so , excesses and contrary qualities contribute to the pro- portion and harmony of the universal system . That it is not strange that we should not be able to discover perfection and order in every instance ...
... equal or alike , even so , excesses and contrary qualities contribute to the pro- portion and harmony of the universal system . That it is not strange that we should not be able to discover perfection and order in every instance ...
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... equal difficulties . His satires abound in uncertain allusions and con- troverted topics which require a large amount of illustration and discussion . His philosophy was not understood by himself , and it is a study to disentangle his ...
... equal difficulties . His satires abound in uncertain allusions and con- troverted topics which require a large amount of illustration and discussion . His philosophy was not understood by himself , and it is a study to disentangle his ...
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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