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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... Plato's peculiar argument for a future ftate ; and the words here employed - the foul uneafy , & c . his peculiar expreffion . The poet in this place , therefore , fays in exprefs terms , that God gave us hope to supply that future ...
... Plato's peculiar argument for a future ftate ; and the words here employed - the foul uneafy , & c . his peculiar expreffion . The poet in this place , therefore , fays in exprefs terms , that God gave us hope to supply that future ...
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... Plato deep , as Seneca fevere : NOTES . natural condition of things , but to be the arbitrary de crce of infinite wisdom and goodness , which imposed a barrier to the extravagancies of its giddy lawless crea- ture , always inclined to ...
... Plato deep , as Seneca fevere : NOTES . natural condition of things , but to be the arbitrary de crce of infinite wisdom and goodness , which imposed a barrier to the extravagancies of its giddy lawless crea- ture , always inclined to ...
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... Plato , to th ' empyreal sphere , To the first good , first perfect , and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod ; And quitting fenfe call imitating God ; As Eastern priefts in giddy circles run , And turn their heads ...
... Plato , to th ' empyreal sphere , To the first good , first perfect , and first fair ; Or tread the mazy round his follow'rs trod ; And quitting fenfe call imitating God ; As Eastern priefts in giddy circles run , And turn their heads ...
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... Plato advises ; and to re- ftrain Spleen to a contempt and hatred of Vice . This is what the Poet meant , and what every unprejudiced man could not but fee he must needs mean by RECTI- FYING THE MASTER PASSION , though he had not ...
... Plato advises ; and to re- ftrain Spleen to a contempt and hatred of Vice . This is what the Poet meant , and what every unprejudiced man could not but fee he must needs mean by RECTI- FYING THE MASTER PASSION , though he had not ...
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... Plato had faid from old tradition , that , during the golden age , and under the reign of Saturn , the primitive language then in use was common to man and beafts . Moral inftructors took advantage of the popular fenfe of this tradition ...
... Plato had faid from old tradition , that , during the golden age , and under the reign of Saturn , the primitive language then in use was common to man and beafts . Moral inftructors took advantage of the popular fenfe of this tradition ...
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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