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... mankind away from Revelation , and to represent the whole course of things as a necessary concatena- tion of indissoluble fatality and it is undeniable that in many passages a religious eye may easily discover expressions not very ...
... mankind away from Revelation , and to represent the whole course of things as a necessary concatena- tion of indissoluble fatality and it is undeniable that in many passages a religious eye may easily discover expressions not very ...
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... mankind , because infinite Excellence can do only what is best . He finds out that these beings must be somewhere ; and that all the question is , whether man be in a wrong place . Surely if , according to the poet's Leibnitzian ...
... mankind , because infinite Excellence can do only what is best . He finds out that these beings must be somewhere ; and that all the question is , whether man be in a wrong place . Surely if , according to the poet's Leibnitzian ...
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... mankind safe to the public and tolerable to themselves , both morals and policy exact a nicer inquiry than will be very soon or very easily made . There is undoubtedly a degree of knowledge which will direct a man to refer all to ...
... mankind safe to the public and tolerable to themselves , both morals and policy exact a nicer inquiry than will be very soon or very easily made . There is undoubtedly a degree of knowledge which will direct a man to refer all to ...
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... mankind , has so wonderfully contrived the nature of things , that our most vicious actions may sometimes accidentally and collaterally produce good . Thus , for instance , robbery may disperse useless hoards to the benefit of the ...
... mankind , has so wonderfully contrived the nature of things , that our most vicious actions may sometimes accidentally and collaterally produce good . Thus , for instance , robbery may disperse useless hoards to the benefit of the ...
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... mankind in ge- neral for the sake of a particular country , is but a more extended selfishness , and really criminal ; and all human glory but a mean and ridiculous delusion . The whole affair then of religion and morality , the subject ...
... mankind in ge- neral for the sake of a particular country , is but a more extended selfishness , and really criminal ; and all human glory but a mean and ridiculous delusion . The whole affair then of religion and morality , the subject ...
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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