L'essai sur l'homme |
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V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien , As , to be hated , needs but to be seen ; IV . La même ambition sauve et perd les états 60 AN ESSAY ON MAN , EPISTLE II . IV. This light and darkness, in our chaos ...
V. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien , As , to be hated , needs but to be seen ; IV . La même ambition sauve et perd les états 60 AN ESSAY ON MAN , EPISTLE II . IV. This light and darkness, in our chaos ...
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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...
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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.
Bibliographic information
| Title | L'essai sur l'homme Volume 17 of Oeuvres de Jacques Delille |
| Author | Alexander Pope |
| Publisher | Chez G. Michaud, 1821 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Dec 2, 2006 |
| Length | 207 pages |
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