An Essay on ManSamuel R. Wells, 1867 - 53 pages |
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... blest to - day is as completely so , As who began a thousand years ago . † III . Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state ; From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ...
... blest to - day is as completely so , As who began a thousand years ago . † III . Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate , All but the page prescrib'd , their present state ; From brutes what men , from men what spirits know ...
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... blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order , sins against the eternal cause . † V. Ask for what ...
... blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be gods . Aspiring to be gods , if angels fell , Aspiring to be angels , men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order , sins against the eternal cause . † V. Ask for what ...
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... blest with all ? The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think BEYOND mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For ...
... blest with all ? The bliss of man ( could pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think BEYOND mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For ...
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... blest as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction which thou canst not see ; All discord , harmony not understood ...
... blest as thou canst bear ; Safe in the hand of one disposing power , Or in the natal , or the mortal hour . All nature is but art , unknown to thee ; All chance , direction which thou canst not see ; All discord , harmony not understood ...
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... blest beam turns vinegar more sour ; We , wretched subjects , though no lawful sway , In this weak queen some favorites still obey ; Ah ! if she lend not arms , as well as rules , What can she more than tell us we are fools ? Teach us ...
... blest beam turns vinegar more sour ; We , wretched subjects , though no lawful sway , In this weak queen some favorites still obey ; Ah ! if she lend not arms , as well as rules , What can she more than tell us we are fools ? Teach us ...
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Page 21 - KNow then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of 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, 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 reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much...
Page 9 - FATHER of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou great First Cause, least understood, Who all my sense confined To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself am blind...
Page 15 - 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...
Page 12 - 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) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan: A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 33 - Nature that tyrant checks ; he only knows, And helps, another creature's wants and woes. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? Man cares for all : to birds he gives his woods, To beasts his pastures, and to fish his floods ; For some his int'rest prompts him to provide, For more his pleasure, yet for more his pride : 60 All feed on one vain patron, and enjoy Th' extensive...
Page 10 - If I am right, Thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay ; If I am wrong, oh, teach my heart To find that better way.
Page 20 - 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, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear; Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
Page 18 - 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 ? The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew?
Page 41 - 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...
Page 17 - Better for Us, perhaps, it might appear, Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind. But ALL subsists by elemental strife; And Passions are the elements of Life.