ESSAY ON MAN. BY ALEXANDER POPE. INSCRIBED TO HENRY SAINT-JOHN, LORD BOLINGBROKE. Cornish Edition. 2799. HELSTON: PRINTED AT THE STANNARY PRESS, BY THOMAS FLINDELL. 1798. be THE DESIGN.. HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my Lord Bacon's exfiression) "come home to men's business and bosoms," I thought it more satisfactory to begin with considering man in the abstract, his nature, and his state: since, to prove any moral duty, to enforce any moral precept, or to examine the perfection or imperfection of any creature whatsoever, it is |