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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... truths in this world . It is therefore in the anatomy of the Mind as in that of the Body : more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large , open , and perceptible parts , than by flu- dying too much fuch finer nerves and ...
... truths in this world . It is therefore in the anatomy of the Mind as in that of the Body : more good will accrue to mankind by attending to the large , open , and perceptible parts , than by flu- dying too much fuch finer nerves and ...
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... foever the partition is by which they are divided . Thus ( to illuftrate the truth of this obfervation ) when a geometer confiders a triangle , in order to demonstrate 230 And Middle natures , how they long to join 20 Er . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
... foever the partition is by which they are divided . Thus ( to illuftrate the truth of this obfervation ) when a geometer confiders a triangle , in order to demonstrate 230 And Middle natures , how they long to join 20 Er . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
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... truth is clear , WHATEVER IS , IS RIGHT . NOTES , + VER . 294. One truth is clear , Whatever is , is right . ] What are we to understand by these words ? Did the Poet mean right with regard to Man , or right with regard to God ; right ...
... truth is clear , WHATEVER IS , IS RIGHT . NOTES , + VER . 294. One truth is clear , Whatever is , is right . ] What are we to understand by these words ? Did the Poet mean right with regard to Man , or right with regard to God ; right ...
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... truth ; he hath , with great judgment , reprefented Man as doubting and wavering between the right and wrong object ; from which state there are great hopes he may be relieved by a careful and circumfpect ufe of Reason . On the contrary ...
... truth ; he hath , with great judgment , reprefented Man as doubting and wavering between the right and wrong object ; from which state there are great hopes he may be relieved by a careful and circumfpect ufe of Reason . On the contrary ...
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... truths . This is the weak ftate of Reason , with which Error mixes itself with all its true conclufions concerning Man's Nature . VER . 11. Alike in ignorance , & c . ] i . e . The proper sphere of his reafon is fo narrow , and the ...
... truths . This is the weak ftate of Reason , with which Error mixes itself with all its true conclufions concerning Man's Nature . VER . 11. Alike in ignorance , & c . ] i . e . The proper sphere of his reafon is fo narrow , and the ...
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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