An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which is Added The Universal PrayerS. Andrus, 1824 - 67 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... vice in itself , and how we deceive ourselves into it , ver . 217. VI . That , however , the ends of Providence and general good are answered in our passions and imperfec rise ; J tions , ver . 238 , & c . vi THE DESIGN .
... vice in itself , and how we deceive ourselves into it , ver . 217. VI . That , however , the ends of Providence and general good are answered in our passions and imperfec rise ; J tions , ver . 238 , & c . vi THE DESIGN .
Pagina viii
... answered from ver . 19 to 27. II . It is the end of all men , and attainable by all , ver . 30. God intends happi- ness to be equal ; and to be so , it must be social , since all particular happiness depends on general , and since he ...
... answered from ver . 19 to 27. II . It is the end of all men , and attainable by all , ver . 30. God intends happi- ness to be equal ; and to be so , it must be social , since all particular happiness depends on general , and since he ...
Pagina 14
... answers , " Tis for mine : " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power , " Suckles each herb , and spreads out every flower ; " Annual for me , the grape , the rose renew " The juice nectareous , and the balmy dew ; " For me , the mine ...
... answers , " Tis for mine : " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power , " Suckles each herb , and spreads out every flower ; " Annual for me , the grape , the rose renew " The juice nectareous , and the balmy dew ; " For me , the mine ...
Pagina 52
... answer one great aim ; That true self - love and social are the same ; That virtue only makes our bliss below ; And all our knowledge is , ourselves to know ? 395 THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER . DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO . FATHER of 52 ESSAY ON MAN .
... answer one great aim ; That true self - love and social are the same ; That virtue only makes our bliss below ; And all our knowledge is , ourselves to know ? 395 THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER . DEO OPTIMO MAXIMO . FATHER of 52 ESSAY ON MAN .
Pagina 63
... answer your letter . I am at length favoured with your poem upon Religion ; and should have received from the perusal of it , a pleasure unmixed with pain , had I not the mortifi- cation to find , that you impute several principles to ...
... answer your letter . I am at length favoured with your poem upon Religion ; and should have received from the perusal of it , a pleasure unmixed with pain , had I not the mortifi- cation to find , that you impute several principles to ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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!
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 46 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...