An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 من الصفحات |
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... bounds , connects , and equals all . 280 X. Cease then , nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame . Know thy own point : this kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heav'n bestows on thee ...
... bounds , connects , and equals all . 280 X. Cease then , nor order imperfection name : Our proper bliss depends on what we blame . Know thy own point : this kind , this due degree Of blindness , weakness , Heav'n bestows on thee ...
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... bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well - accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life . 720 100 55 95 Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And ESSAY OM MAN ...
... bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the balance of the mind : The lights and shades , whose well - accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life . 720 100 55 95 Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes , And ESSAY OM MAN ...
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... bounds invade , 203 As in some well - wrought picture , light and shade : And oft so mixt , the diff'rence is too nice Where ends the virtue , or begins the vice . Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall , 210 That vice or virtue ...
... bounds invade , 203 As in some well - wrought picture , light and shade : And oft so mixt , the diff'rence is too nice Where ends the virtue , or begins the vice . Fools ! who from hence into the notion fall , 210 That vice or virtue ...
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... bounds : 110 But , as he fram'd the whole , the whole to bless , On mutual wants built mutual happiness : So from the first , eternal order ran , And creature link'd to creature , man to man . Whate'er of life all - quick'ning ether ...
... bounds : 110 But , as he fram'd the whole , the whole to bless , On mutual wants built mutual happiness : So from the first , eternal order ran , And creature link'd to creature , man to man . Whate'er of life all - quick'ning ether ...
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... bound , Or think Thee Lord alone of man , When thousand worlds are round : Let not this weak , unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw , And deal damnation round the land , On each I judge thy foe : If I am right , thy grace impart ...
... bound , Or think Thee Lord alone of man , When thousand worlds are round : Let not this weak , unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw , And deal damnation round the land , On each I judge thy foe : If I am right , thy grace impart ...
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acts the soul alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline chain charity comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE IV Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n gives gods happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper Racine reas'ning religion rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral shade sire skies Socrates Sonnet sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant Universal Prayer virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise
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الصفحة 10 - 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...
الصفحة 46 - I'll tell you, friend, a wise man and a fool. You'll find, if once the monarch acts the monk, Or, cobbler-like, the parson will be drunk, Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow : The rest is all but leather or prunello.
الصفحة 17 - What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood.
الصفحة 50 - Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are round.
الصفحة 40 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some swell'd to gods, confess e'en virtue vain!
الصفحة 40 - Twin'd with the wreaths Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? • Where grows ? — where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil...
الصفحة 50 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
الصفحة 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
الصفحة 51 - HAPPY the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire ; Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
الصفحة 48 - Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. O ! 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...