Pope. Essay on man, ed. by M. Pattison1878 |
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... human and natural sympathy . ' With all his fine perception and marvellous acuteness , he takes but a limited view of human life and duty , and is deficient in that spirit of true humanity that stirs the deepest feelings , and ...
... human and natural sympathy . ' With all his fine perception and marvellous acuteness , he takes but a limited view of human life and duty , and is deficient in that spirit of true humanity that stirs the deepest feelings , and ...
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... human reason has been able hitherto to advance in justification of the moral government of God . ' ( Active and Moral Powers ; Works , 7. 133. ) This might seem a little overstated if it did not stand in close connection with some ...
... human reason has been able hitherto to advance in justification of the moral government of God . ' ( Active and Moral Powers ; Works , 7. 133. ) This might seem a little overstated if it did not stand in close connection with some ...
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... humanity prior to this covenant was conceived either as one of equality and liberty with reciprocal services , as by Hooker ( Eccles . Pol . bk . 1 ) , and Locke ( Civil Government , bk . 2 , c . 2 ) , or of mutual war as by Hobbes ( De ...
... humanity prior to this covenant was conceived either as one of equality and liberty with reciprocal services , as by Hooker ( Eccles . Pol . bk . 1 ) , and Locke ( Civil Government , bk . 2 , c . 2 ) , or of mutual war as by Hobbes ( De ...
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... human life is not met by other positions that man is placed in , which might reconcile us to the difficulty , but by two comparisons poetically striking , but logically unsatisfying . Butler would never have gone to the inferior ...
... human life is not met by other positions that man is placed in , which might reconcile us to the difficulty , but by two comparisons poetically striking , but logically unsatisfying . Butler would never have gone to the inferior ...
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... human forms of life . The fantastic sentiment which formed the ideal standard of character in the age of chivalry , is supplanted by the maxims of a shrewd common- sense . These reflections on life and conduct , this proverbial ...
... human forms of life . The fantastic sentiment which formed the ideal standard of character in the age of chivalry , is supplanted by the maxims of a shrewd common- sense . These reflections on life and conduct , this proverbial ...
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Página 30 - 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 66 - 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 fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 77 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Página 100 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 36 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Página 86 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 104 - They summ'd their pens; and, soaring the air sublime, With clang despised the ground, under a cloud In prospect: there the eagle and the stork On cliffs and cedar tops their eyries build: Part loosely wing the region; part, more wise, In common, ranged in figure, wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their aery caravan, high over seas Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Página 33 - Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Página 63 - What shocks one part will edify the rest, Nor with one system can they all be blest. The very best will variously incline, And what rewards your virtue, punish mine. Whatever is, is right.
Página 30 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.