Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral ... - Página 44de Alexander Pope - 1787Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1808 - 408 páginas
...his station here, From which to reason, or to which referí Through worlds uunumber'd tho' the God he known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He who thro' vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compo»c one universe, Observe how system into system... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 444 páginas
...than what we see of his dispensations to Man in this station; therefore Thro' worlds unnumber'd thowgh the God be known, Tis ours to trace him only in our own *. This naturally leads the Poet to exprobrate the miserable folly and impiety of pretending to pry... | |
| William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 páginas
...than what we see of his dispensations to Man in this station; therefore Thro' worlds unnumber'd though the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own *. This naturally leads the Poet to exprobrate the miserable folly and impiety of pretending to pry... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? 20 Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 páginas
...we are : But of this frame the bearings, and the ties, The strong connexions, nice dependencies, 30 Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 páginas
...what we know ? _ Of Man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ! Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known. 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, • Observe ho\v system... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 páginas
...we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Through worlds unnumber'd though ape, The libell'd person and the pictur'd shape ; through vast immensity can fierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into... | |
| Samuel Drew - 1820 - 130 páginas
...— We are to think, what rational beings ought to think, that " Through worlds unnumbered, thpugh the God be known, " 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own." Christianity, with a modesty peculiar to itself, passes over, in silence, what forms no part of its... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 páginas
...we but his station here, ;rom which to reason, or to which refer? ihrough worlds unnumber'd, though the God be known, Tis ours to trace him only in our own. Ie. who through vast immensity can pierce, « worlds on worlds compose one universe, laserve how system... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 páginas
...what we know ? Of man, what see we, but his station here, Prom which to reason, or to which refer ? 30 Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who thro' vast immensity can pierce, Sees worlds on worlds compose one universe ; Observes how system into system... | |
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