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Página xxxvii
... passion all confused , ' and yet be ' as perfect a being as he ought to be ' ? 3. The doctrine obviously intended to be inculcated in this Essay is thatthe dispensations of Providence , in the distribu- tion of good and evil in this ...
... passion all confused , ' and yet be ' as perfect a being as he ought to be ' ? 3. The doctrine obviously intended to be inculcated in this Essay is thatthe dispensations of Providence , in the distribu- tion of good and evil in this ...
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... passion's , being's , use and end ; Why doing , suffering , checked , impelled ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . 50 55 60 65 creatures in a gradually ascend- ing order , and placed in spheres respectively adapted for them ...
... passion's , being's , use and end ; Why doing , suffering , checked , impelled ; and why This hour a slave , the next a deity . 50 55 60 65 creatures in a gradually ascend- ing order , and placed in spheres respectively adapted for them ...
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... passion discomposed the mind . But all subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements of life . 165 170 The general order , since the whole began , Is kept in nature , and is kept in man . VI . What would this man ? Now ...
... passion discomposed the mind . But all subsists by elemental strife ; And passions are the elements of life . 165 170 The general order , since the whole began , Is kept in nature , and is kept in man . VI . What would this man ? Now ...
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... passions , and their use , verse 93 to 130. The pre- dominant passion , and its force , 132 to 160. Its necessity , in directing men to different purposes , verse 165 , etc. Its providential use , in fixing our principle and ...
... passions , and their use , verse 93 to 130. The pre- dominant passion , and its force , 132 to 160. Its necessity , in directing men to different purposes , verse 165 , etc. Its providential use , in fixing our principle and ...
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... passion all confused ; Still by himself abused , or disabused ; Created half to rise , and half to fall ; Great lord ... passions is practicable . 11. His reason such . ] Such being the imperfect nature of his reason . Deceived . 14 ...
... passion all confused ; Still by himself abused , or disabused ; Created half to rise , and half to fall ; Great lord ... passions is practicable . 11. His reason such . ] Such being the imperfect nature of his reason . Deceived . 14 ...
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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