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... mankind ? From pride , from pride , our very reas'ning springs ; Account for moral , as for nat❜ral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it ...
... mankind ? From pride , from pride , our very reas'ning springs ; Account for moral , as for nat❜ral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it ...
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... mankind ; 190 No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , 195 T ...
... mankind ; 190 No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , 195 T ...
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... mankind is Man . Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state , A being darkly wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side , 5 With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act or ...
... mankind is Man . Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state , A being darkly wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side , 5 With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act or ...
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... mankind . Heav'n , forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , ' Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ally ...
... mankind . Heav'n , forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , ' Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ally ...
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... mankind : Here subterranean works and cities see : There towns aerial on the waving tree . Learn each small people's genius , policies , The ant's republic , and the realm of bees ; How those in common all their wealth bestow , And ...
... mankind : Here subterranean works and cities see : There towns aerial on the waving tree . Learn each small people's genius , policies , The ant's republic , and the realm of bees ; How those in common all their wealth bestow , And ...
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