The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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Page xxxiv
... caufe of Man's error and mifery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection , juftice or injuftice , of his difpenfations , * 109 , & c . V. The abfurdity ...
... caufe of Man's error and mifery . The impiety of putting himself in the place of God , and judging of the fitness or unfitness , perfection or imperfection , juftice or injuftice , of his difpenfations , * 109 , & c . V. The abfurdity ...
Page 32
... Caufe of all things , debarred a contrivance in- finitely exquifite , because fome Men , to fet up their idol , Fate , abfurdly reprefent it as prefiding over fuch a fyftem ? NOTES . او of thefe fpecies . On this account it was that ...
... Caufe of all things , debarred a contrivance in- finitely exquifite , because fome Men , to fet up their idol , Fate , abfurdly reprefent it as prefiding over fuch a fyftem ? NOTES . او of thefe fpecies . On this account it was that ...
Page 40
... caufe of all his im- pious complaints . He proceeds to confirm his Thefis - Previously endea- vours to abate our wonder at the ph¿nomenon of moral Evil ; fhews , first , its ufe to the perfection of the universe , by analogy , from the ...
... caufe of all his im- pious complaints . He proceeds to confirm his Thefis - Previously endea- vours to abate our wonder at the ph¿nomenon of moral Evil ; fhews , first , its ufe to the perfection of the universe , by analogy , from the ...
Page 58
... Manich¿an Deities ( the first of which contributed to his Reason , the other to his Paffions ) rather than the creature of one Individual Caufe . This was 85 Wits , just like Fools , at war about 58 EP . II . ESSAY ON MAN .
... Manich¿an Deities ( the first of which contributed to his Reason , the other to his Paffions ) rather than the creature of one Individual Caufe . This was 85 Wits , just like Fools , at war about 58 EP . II . ESSAY ON MAN .
Page 70
... caufe , as he hath defcribed things , the motive appears to be only the gratification of fome paffion ; give me leave to answer for him , that this would be miftaking the argu- ment , which ( to 249 of this epiftle ) confiders the ...
... caufe , as he hath defcribed things , the motive appears to be only the gratification of fome paffion ; give me leave to answer for him , that this would be miftaking the argu- ment , which ( to 249 of this epiftle ) confiders the ...
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