An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord BolingbrokeH. Benton, 1824 - 48 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 12
... gain ; In God's , one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches some wheel , or verges to some goal ; Tis but a ...
... gain ; In God's , one single can its end produce , Yet serves to second too some other use . So man , who here seems principal alone , Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown , Touches some wheel , or verges to some goal ; Tis but a ...
الصفحة 22
... gains , Each strengthens reason , and self - love restrains . 80 Let subtle school - men teach these friends to fight , More studious o divide than to unite ; And grace and virtue , sense and reason split , With all the rash dexterity ...
... gains , Each strengthens reason , and self - love restrains . 80 Let subtle school - men teach these friends to fight , More studious o divide than to unite ; And grace and virtue , sense and reason split , With all the rash dexterity ...
الصفحة 29
... gain ; And not a vanity is giv'n in vain ; 290 Ev'n mean self - love becomes , by force divine , The scale to measure others ' wants by thine . See ! and confess one comfort still must rise ; " Tis this , though man's a fool , yet God ...
... gain ; And not a vanity is giv'n in vain ; 290 Ev'n mean self - love becomes , by force divine , The scale to measure others ' wants by thine . See ! and confess one comfort still must rise ; " Tis this , though man's a fool , yet God ...
الصفحة 32
... gain , Which heavier reason labours at in vain . This too serves always , Reason never long ; One must go right , the other may go wrong . See then the acting and comparing pow'rs , One in their nature , which are two in our's ; And ...
... gain , Which heavier reason labours at in vain . This too serves always , Reason never long ; One must go right , the other may go wrong . See then the acting and comparing pow'rs , One in their nature , which are two in our's ; And ...
الصفحة 38
... gain . Forc'd into virtue thus , by self - defence ; E'en kings learn'd justice and benevolence : 275 280 Self - love forsook the path it first pursu❜d , And found the private in the public good . ' Twas then the studions head , or gen ...
... gain . Forc'd into virtue thus , by self - defence ; E'en kings learn'd justice and benevolence : 275 280 Self - love forsook the path it first pursu❜d , And found the private in the public good . ' Twas then the studions head , or gen ...
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الصفحة 19 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
الصفحة 20 - 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; Born but to die, and...
الصفحة 53 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
الصفحة 12 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, 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 to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
الصفحة 10 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
الصفحة 13 - Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd 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...
الصفحة 13 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
الصفحة 54 - 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 54 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe.
الصفحة 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?