The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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Alexander Pope. AN ESSAY ON MAN : то H. ST . JOHN , L. BOLINGBROKE . THE DESIG N. AVING propofed to write fome pieces on.
Alexander Pope. AN ESSAY ON MAN : то H. ST . JOHN , L. BOLINGBROKE . THE DESIG N. AVING propofed to write fome pieces on.
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Alexander Pope. THE DESIG N. AVING propofed to write fome pieces on Hu- Hman man Life and Manners , fuch as ( to ufe my lord Bacon's expreffion ) come home to Men's Bufinejs and Bofoms , I thought it more fatisfactory to begin with ...
Alexander Pope. THE DESIG N. AVING propofed to write fome pieces on Hu- Hman man Life and Manners , fuch as ( to ufe my lord Bacon's expreffion ) come home to Men's Bufinejs and Bofoms , I thought it more fatisfactory to begin with ...
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... fome occafions , to re- train their mirth : And that it's crimes are fo flagitious , that the most candid have feldom an opportunity , on this fubject , to exercise their virtue . I. Say firft , of God above , or Man 4 4 EP . I. ESSAY ...
... fome occafions , to re- train their mirth : And that it's crimes are fo flagitious , that the most candid have feldom an opportunity , on this fubject , to exercise their virtue . I. Say firft , of God above , or Man 4 4 EP . I. ESSAY ...
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... fome greater good in the natural world , he fuppofes they may tend likewife to fome greater good in the moral , as appears from these sublime images in the following lines , " If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's defign , Why ...
... fome greater good in the natural world , he fuppofes they may tend likewife to fome greater good in the moral , as appears from these sublime images in the following lines , " If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's defign , Why ...
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... fome part or other of the scale of reasoning life , fuch a creature as MAN : Which reduces the difpute to this ab- furd queftion , Whether God has placed him wrong ? Refpecting Man , whatever wrong we call , May , 8 ESSAY ON MAN . EP . I.
... fome part or other of the scale of reasoning life , fuch a creature as MAN : Which reduces the difpute to this ab- furd queftion , Whether God has placed him wrong ? Refpecting Man , whatever wrong we call , May , 8 ESSAY ON MAN . EP . I.
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