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... wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's design , Why then a Borgia , or a Catiline ? Who knows but he , whose hand the light'ning forms , Who heaves old Ocean , and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce Ambition in a Cæsar's ...
... wise . If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's design , Why then a Borgia , or a Catiline ? Who knows but he , whose hand the light'ning forms , Who heaves old Ocean , and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce Ambition in a Cæsar's ...
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... wise , Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as Creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts , to Man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass ...
... wise , Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? VII . Far as Creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts , to Man's imperial race , From the green myriads in the peopled grass ...
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... wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the Scepti's 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 ...
... wise , and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the Scepti's 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 ...
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... wise ; And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , Vice or Virtue , Self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal ; But HEAV'N's great view is One , and that the Whole ...
... wise ; And ev❜n the best , by fits , what they despise . Tis but by parts we follow good or ill ; For , Vice or Virtue , Self directs it still ; Each individual seeks a sev'ral goal ; But HEAV'N's great view is One , and that the Whole ...
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... divine , The scale to measure others wants by thine . See ! and confess , one comfort still must rise ; ' Tis this , Tho'Man's a fool , yet GOD IS WISE . ESSAI SUR L'HOMME , ÉPITRE II . Et pour nous 68 AN ESSAY ON MAN , EPISTLE II .
... divine , The scale to measure others wants by thine . See ! and confess , one comfort still must rise ; ' Tis this , Tho'Man's a fool , yet GOD IS WISE . ESSAI SUR L'HOMME , ÉPITRE II . Et pour nous 68 AN ESSAY ON MAN , EPISTLE II .
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alike Beast began best blessing blest bliss bonheur breath call carré commun cart ciel cieux cœur common creature death Delille Dieu earth embrace EPISTLE ÉPITRE equal ESSAI SUR L'HOMME Eternal Ev'n ev'ry faith fear feel find first fix'd fool form'd friend giv'n gives good grand-jésus great grows Happiness Heav'n heureux hommes Hope humains int'rest kind kings know l'autre l'instinct l'univers laws less life little Lord lord Bolingbroke love made makes Man alone Man's mankind mind monde mortels nature Nature's Nature's law nautile never o'er orgueil papier fin grand-raisin papier vélin passions pensée plaisir plaisirs pleasure poème poète Pope pow'rs pride PRIÈRE UNIVERSELLE raison Reason right rise sage same Self-love Sense seul soul state strong taught things think thou thro Vanity vaste vélin sup vélin superfin vertu vice Virtue Vois want weak whole wise world
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Page 14 - 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 38 - 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...
Page 40 - 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 hurled, The glory, jest and riddle of the world...
Page 202 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Page 14 - But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Page 30 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth as in the ethereal frame ; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 144 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Page 28 - Vast chain of being! which from God began Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing. On superior...
Page 106 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 155 - Nous avons beau enfler nos conceptions au delà des espaces imaginables, nous n'enfantons que des atomes, au prix de la réalité des choses. C'est une sphère infinie dont le centre est partout, la circonférence nulle part.