The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... beft , is , that whatever is wrong in our private fyftem , is right as relative to the whole : 66 Refpecting Man , whatever wrong we call , May , must be right , as relative to ALL . That it may , he proves ( from 52 to 61. ) by fhewing ...
... beft , is , that whatever is wrong in our private fyftem , is right as relative to the whole : 66 Refpecting Man , whatever wrong we call , May , must be right , as relative to ALL . That it may , he proves ( from 52 to 61. ) by fhewing ...
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... beft ; that to think of difcovering the manner how God conducts this wonder- ful fcheme to its completion , is as abfurd as to imagine that the horfe and ox fhall ever be able to comprehend why they undergo fuch different treatment in ...
... beft ; that to think of difcovering the manner how God conducts this wonder- ful fcheme to its completion , is as abfurd as to imagine that the horfe and ox fhall ever be able to comprehend why they undergo fuch different treatment in ...
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... beft is fo far from weakening those natural arguments , that it ftrengthens and fupports them . For if thofe evils , to which good men are fubject , be mere Disorders , without any tendency to the greater good of the whole ; then ...
... beft is fo far from weakening those natural arguments , that it ftrengthens and fupports them . For if thofe evils , to which good men are fubject , be mere Disorders , without any tendency to the greater good of the whole ; then ...
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... beft : draws from thence two Confequences , 1. That there must needs be fomewhere fuch a creature as Man ; 2. That the moral Evil which he is author of , is productive of the Good of the Whole . This is his general Thefis ; from whence ...
... beft : draws from thence two Confequences , 1. That there must needs be fomewhere fuch a creature as Man ; 2. That the moral Evil which he is author of , is productive of the Good of the Whole . This is his general Thefis ; from whence ...
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... beft inftruct us in Man's Nature ; that knowledge being effential to Religion ; whofe fubject is Man confidered in all his relations , and , confequently , whofe object is God . NOTES . enquiries too far , as from not carrying them far ...
... beft inftruct us in Man's Nature ; that knowledge being effential to Religion ; whofe fubject is Man confidered in all his relations , and , confequently , whofe object is God . NOTES . enquiries too far , as from not carrying them far ...
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