An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke |
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... mankind ? 160 From pride , from pride , our very reas'ning springs ; Account for moral as for natural things : Why charge we heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it ...
... mankind ? 160 From pride , from pride , our very reas'ning springs ; Account for moral as for natural things : Why charge we heaven in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it ...
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... mankind ; 190 160 No powers 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 given , 195 To ...
... mankind ; 190 160 No powers 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 given , 195 To ...
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... mankind is Man . Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , The A being darkly wise , and richly great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side , With to much weakness for the Stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act ...
... mankind is Man . Placed on this isthmus of a middle state , The A being darkly wise , and richly great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side , With to much weakness for the Stoic's pride , He hangs between ; in doubt to act ...
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... mankind . Heaven , forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ally ...
... mankind . Heaven , forming each on other to depend , A master , or a servant , or a friend , Bids each on other for assistance call , Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all . Wants , frailties , passions , closer still ally ...
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... oar , and catch the driving gale . Here too all forms of social union find , And hence let reason , late , instruct mankind : 160 165 10 105 170 15 175 180 Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns ærial 22 ESSAY ON MAN .
... oar , and catch the driving gale . Here too all forms of social union find , And hence let reason , late , instruct mankind : 160 165 10 105 170 15 175 180 Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns ærial 22 ESSAY ON MAN .
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Page 4 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us ( since Life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 6 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 11 - 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...
Page 27 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these...
Page 28 - Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
Page 6 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd 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 16 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 31 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. Fortune in men has some small difference made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade ; The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more," you cry, " than crown and cowl ?" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Page 32 - The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Page 29 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?