An Essay on Man: Enlarged and Improved by the Author, Together with His MS. Additions and Variations as in the Last Edition of His Works. With the Notes of William, Lord Bishop of GloucesterW. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777 - 124 pages |
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... mankind by attending to the large , open , and perceptible parts , than by flu- dying too much fuch finer nerves and vcffels , the conformations and ufes of which will for ever escape our obfervation . The difputes are all upon these ...
... mankind by attending to the large , open , and perceptible parts , than by flu- dying too much fuch finer nerves and vcffels , the conformations and ufes of which will for ever escape our obfervation . The difputes are all upon these ...
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... Mankind is kept even by Provi- dence , by the two Paffions of Hope and Fear , ver . 67 . What the Happiness of Individuals is , as far as is confiftent with the conftitution of this world ; and that the good man has here the Advantage ...
... Mankind is kept even by Provi- dence , by the two Paffions of Hope and Fear , ver . 67 . What the Happiness of Individuals is , as far as is confiftent with the conftitution of this world ; and that the good man has here the Advantage ...
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... Mankind , and the various Manners of the age . Next , in line 16 , he tells us with what defign he wrote , viz . To vindicate the ways of God to Man . The Men he writes against , he frequently informs us , are fuch as weigh their ...
... Mankind , and the various Manners of the age . Next , in line 16 , he tells us with what defign he wrote , viz . To vindicate the ways of God to Man . The Men he writes against , he frequently informs us , are fuch as weigh their ...
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... Mankind ? VER . 35 to 42. ] In thefe lines the poet has joined the beauty of argumentation to the fublimity of thought ; where the fimilar inftances , propofed for his adverfaries examination , fhew as well the abfurdity of their com ...
... Mankind ? VER . 35 to 42. ] In thefe lines the poet has joined the beauty of argumentation to the fublimity of thought ; where the fimilar inftances , propofed for his adverfaries examination , fhew as well the abfurdity of their com ...
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... Heaven on pride , he upbraids them ( from ver . 99 to 112. ) with the example of the poor Indian to whom alfo Na- ture hath given this common HOPE of Mankind : But But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His EP . I. II ESSAY ON MAN .
... Heaven on pride , he upbraids them ( from ver . 99 to 112. ) with the example of the poor Indian to whom alfo Na- ture hath given this common HOPE of Mankind : But But thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His EP . I. II ESSAY ON MAN .
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ALEXANDER POPE Angels balance of Happiness beafts Beaſt becauſe beft beſt bleffing bleft blifs Catiline Caufe Cauſe chufe conclufion confequence confifts creature defcribed earth Efay Effay epiftle ev'ry evil exerciſe exprefs faid fame fays fecond fenfe ferves fev'ral fhall fhew fhould fince firft firſt focial folly fome fool form'd foul ftill fubject fublime fuch fuffer fuppofed fupport future ftate fyftem gives Happineſs hath Heav'n himſelf Hope human Inftinct int'reft itſelf juft juſt lefs less than Angel Lord Man's Manichæan Mankind mind moral moſt muft muſt natural evil Nature Nature's NOTES obfervation paffage paffions perfect Philofophical Plato pleaſure Poet pow'rs praiſe prefent pride purpoſe Reaſon reft rife ruling Angels Self-love Sir Ifaac ſmall ſphere ſpread ſtate ſtill thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tion truth univerfal uſe VARIATIONS Vice Virtue wants whofe whole whoſe wife Wiſdom