An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke |
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... faith , and all th ' allegiance then ; For nature knew no right divine in men : No ill could fear in God ; and understood A sovereign being , but a sovereign good . True faith , true policy , united ran , 230 235 That was but love of ...
... faith , and all th ' allegiance then ; For nature knew no right divine in men : No ill could fear in God ; and understood A sovereign being , but a sovereign good . True faith , true policy , united ran , 230 235 That was but love of ...
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... Poet or patriot , rose but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow drew : Taught power's due use to people and to kings , 32 ESSAY ON MAN .
... Poet or patriot , rose but to restore 285 The faith and moral nature gave before ; Relum'd her ancient light , not kindled new ; If not God's image , yet his shadow drew : Taught power's due use to people and to kings , 32 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : 305 In faith and hope the world will disagree , But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwarts this one great end , And all of ...
... faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right : 305 In faith and hope the world will disagree , But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwarts this one great end , And all of ...
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... no being any bliss can know , But touches some above , and some below ; Learns , from this union of the rising whole , The first , last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith , law , morals , all 50 ESSAY ON MAN .
... no being any bliss can know , But touches some above , and some below ; Learns , from this union of the rising whole , The first , last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith , law , morals , all 50 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... faith , law , morals , all began , All end , in Love of God , and Love of Man . For him alone , hope leads from goal to goal , And opens still , and opens on his soul ; Till lengthen'd on to faith , and unconfin'd , It pours the bliss ...
... faith , law , morals , all began , All end , in Love of God , and Love of Man . For him alone , hope leads from goal to goal , And opens still , and opens on his soul ; Till lengthen'd on to faith , and unconfin'd , It pours the bliss ...
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Page 19 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent : Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns : To him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 20 - 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...
Page 53 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives; T
Page 12 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, 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 to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 10 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; , Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 13 - 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 13 - Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that Hope to be thy blessing now.
Page 54 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 54 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land, On each I judge Thy foe.
Page 56 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?