An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... are all upon these last ; and I will venture to say , they have less sharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other , and have diminished the H practice more than advanced the theory of morality . If VI . THE DESIGN .
... are all upon these last ; and I will venture to say , they have less sharpened the wits than the hearts of men against each other , and have diminished the H practice more than advanced the theory of morality . If VI . THE DESIGN .
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... less . Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom ...
... less . Ask of thy mother earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom ...
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... began , " And what created perfect ? " --- Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of show'rs EP . I. 19 ESSAY ON MAN .
... began , " And what created perfect ? " --- Why then man ? If the great end be human happiness , Then nature deviates ; and can man do less ? As much that end a constant course requires Of show'rs EP . I. 19 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... less than angel , would be more ; Now looking downwards just as griev'd appears , To want the strength of bulls , the fur of bears . Made for his use , all creatures if we call , Say what their use , had he the pow'rs of all ? Nature to ...
... less than angel , would be more ; Now looking downwards just as griev'd appears , To want the strength of bulls , the fur of bears . Made for his use , all creatures if we call , Say what their use , had he the pow'rs of all ? Nature to ...
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... less inflame , As strong or weak the organs of the frame ; And hence one master passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath EP . II . 39 ESSAY ON MAN .
... less inflame , As strong or weak the organs of the frame ; And hence one master passion in the breast , Like Aaron's serpent , swallows up the rest . As man , perhaps , the moment of his breath EP . II . 39 ESSAY ON MAN .
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Page 32 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much...
Page 100 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do — This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Page 28 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 71 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 35 - Two Principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, 111.
Page 74 - Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; "° Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 78 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Page 108 - Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind.
Page 96 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 76 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right and meaning well ; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense and common ease. Remember man, " the Universal Cause Acts not by partial but by general laws," And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.