 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 pagina’s
...viewed humans suspended between angels and animals, a predicament at once laughable and lamentable, Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all. Man was thus 'the glory, jest and riddle of the world'. Darwin, by contrast, painted a more naturalistic,... | |
 | George Douglas Atkins - 2005 - 196 pagina’s
...reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much: Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! (2.1— 18)'° The contrast and balance of the lines here embody and incarnate the message: man is... | |
 | Allan C. Hutchinson - 2005 - 314 pagina’s
...of any jurisprudential theory might be as much about humanity's limits as reality's recalcitrance: "Created half to rise, and half to fall,/ Great Lord...endless error hurl'd;/ The glory, jest and riddle of the world."4' Any study that takes the idea and practice of evolution seriously must be prepared to make... | |
 | Cambridge International Examinations - 2005 - 272 pagina’s
...little or too much: Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall, Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! scan) measure, contemplate isthmus] a strip of land... | |
 | Mary Midgley - 2005 - 430 pagina’s
...a god or beast, In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reasoning but to err ... Created half to rise, and half to fall, Great lord...prey to all, Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled, The glory, jest and riddle of the world: (Essay on Man, Epistle 2, 3-1 8) What is new in this... | |
 | David Semple - 2005 - 988 pagina’s
...little, or too much Chaos of thought and passion, all confused Still by himself abuse, or disabuse Created half to rise, and half to fall Great lord...prey to all Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled The glory, jest, and riddle of the world Go. wondrous creature! Mount where Science guides Go.... | |
 | John Sandys-Wunsch - 2005 - 402 pagina’s
...little, or too much: Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! 2. A note about words and reality The history of... | |
 | William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - 2005 - 316 pagina’s
...185-7). In his Essay on Man Pope places Milton's Adam and Eve on just such a horse and thinks it wisdom. Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! An £M«V on Man, 2.15-18 As a sophist who tries... | |
 | Donald G. Marshall - 2005 - 284 pagina’s
...we need reminding of how "doubled" we are at every stage, hungry for certainty while riven by doubt. "Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd, / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!" Much Christian discourse over the centuries has surely been poisoned by misunderstandings that dialogue... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 pagina’s
...little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord...error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world! Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides; Go measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;... | |
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Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! 
