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... think in nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of nature was the reign of God ; ' & c . Ess . 3. 147-168 . To explain the foundations of civil society , political theorists had had recourse to the hypothesis of a prior condition ...
... think in nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of nature was the reign of God ; ' & c . Ess . 3. 147-168 . To explain the foundations of civil society , political theorists had had recourse to the hypothesis of a prior condition ...
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... think , to read . The common and obvious thoughts satisfied every one . To go beyond the obvious was stigmatised as pedantry . He who best reflected the general sentiment was held in most esteem . The substance of their poetry was what ...
... think , to read . The common and obvious thoughts satisfied every one . To go beyond the obvious was stigmatised as pedantry . He who best reflected the general sentiment was held in most esteem . The substance of their poetry was what ...
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... think that the uniform French cæsura imparts too artificial and mechanical a character to their versification . The opinion of Dr. Blair seems not far from the truth , that ( Lectures , Lect . 38 ) ' it is a distinguishing advantage of ...
... think that the uniform French cæsura imparts too artificial and mechanical a character to their versification . The opinion of Dr. Blair seems not far from the truth , that ( Lectures , Lect . 38 ) ' it is a distinguishing advantage of ...
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... thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 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 too ...
... thinks , admitted to that equal sky , His faithful dog shall bear him company . 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 too ...
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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 . Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , T ...
... 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 . Say what the use , were finer optics giv❜n , T ...
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Page 30 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 66 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Page 77 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 100 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 9 - 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, heaven 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 pow'r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 36 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 70 - When statesmen, heroes, kings, in dust repose, Whose sons shall blush their fathers were thy foes, Shall then this verse to future age pretend Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend?
Page 30 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know ; Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Page 86 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 35 - To be another in this general frame : Just as absurd, to mourn the tasks or pains The great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the Earth, as in th...