An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke. To which is Added, the Universal Prayer |
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... Socrates , that man is great indeed . 235 What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others ' breath , A thing beyond us , e'en before our death . Just what you hear , you have , and what's unknown The same ( my Lord ) if Tully's or your own . 240 ...
... Socrates , that man is great indeed . 235 What's fame ? a fancy'd life in others ' breath , A thing beyond us , e'en before our death . Just what you hear , you have , and what's unknown The same ( my Lord ) if Tully's or your own . 240 ...
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... The po- et seemeth here to mean the polite and flourishing age of Greece : and those benefactors to mankind , which he had principally in view , were Socrates and Aristotle ; who , of all the pagan world , spoke best of God , NOTES . 59 69.
... The po- et seemeth here to mean the polite and flourishing age of Greece : and those benefactors to mankind , which he had principally in view , were Socrates and Aristotle ; who , of all the pagan world , spoke best of God , NOTES . 59 69.
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acts the soul ALEXANDER POPE alike angels ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast blessing blest blind bliss breath Catiline cause chain comets confest creature death diff'rence earth ease EPISTLE II Essay eternal ethereal Ev'n ev'ry faith fame father fear fix'd folly fool form'd forms gen'ral giv'n giv❜n gives happiness heart Heav'n honour hope human imperfect indolent instinct int'rest justice kings knave Learn learn'd lives Lord man's mankind mind mix'd monarch moral nature nature's nature's law never o'er O'erlook'd pain passion peace perfect plac'd planets Pleas'd pleasure poet Pope pow'rs pride principle proper religion rest rill rise seen double self-love and social sense seraph sev'ral sire skies Socrates sphere taught tempests thee thine things thou toil truth Turenne Twas tyrant UNIVERSAL PRAYER virtue's weak Whate'er whole wise