An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 4. Go , wiser thou ! and , in thy scale of sense , Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such , Say , here he gives ...
... thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 4. Go , wiser thou ! and , in thy scale of sense , Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such , Say , here he gives ...
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... think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear , Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . P Say , what the use , were finer optics giv'n 22 ...
... think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear , Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . P Say , what the use , were finer optics giv'n 22 ...
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... thinks too little or too much ; Chaos of thought and passion , all confus'd ; Still by himself abus'd , or disabus'd ; Created half to rise , and half to fall ; Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth , in ...
... thinks too little or too much ; Chaos of thought and passion , all confus'd ; Still by himself abus'd , or disabus'd ; Created half to rise , and half to fall ; Great lord of all things , yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth , in ...
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... ; and there , At Greenland , Zembla , or the Lord knows where . No creature owns it in the first degree , But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he ; Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone , Or EP . II . 45 ESSAY ON MAN .
... ; and there , At Greenland , Zembla , or the Lord knows where . No creature owns it in the first degree , But thinks his neighbour farther gone than he ; Ev'n those who dwell beneath its very zone , Or EP . II . 45 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... thinks all made for one , not one for all . Grant that the pow'rful still the weak controul ' ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; --- he only knows , And helps another creature's wants and woes . Say ...
... thinks all made for one , not one for all . Grant that the pow'rful still the weak controul ' ; Be man the wit and tyrant of the whole : Nature that tyrant checks ; --- he only knows , And helps another creature's wants and woes . Say ...
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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.