The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, 3. köideA. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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Page 47
... moft outrageous Scepticism ; " Ce n'eft que pour mourir , qu'il eft né , qui'l refpire , " Et toute fa raifon n'est presque qu'un delire . and fo makes his Author directly contradict himself , where he fays of Man , that he hath " too ...
... moft outrageous Scepticism ; " Ce n'eft que pour mourir , qu'il eft né , qui'l refpire , " Et toute fa raifon n'est presque qu'un delire . and fo makes his Author directly contradict himself , where he fays of Man , that he hath " too ...
Page 48
... moft extravagant and fenfelefs inferences ; fuch as the unreality of matter ; the reality of fpace ; the fervility of the Will , & c . The reafon of this fudden fall out of full light into utter darkness , seems not to refult from the ...
... moft extravagant and fenfelefs inferences ; fuch as the unreality of matter ; the reality of fpace ; the fervility of the Will , & c . The reafon of this fudden fall out of full light into utter darkness , seems not to refult from the ...
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... Moft ftrength the moving principle requires ; Active its task , it prompts , impels , infpires . COMMENTARY . 55 60 65 principles are natural , not moral ; and , therefore , in them- felves , neither good nor bad , but fo only as they ...
... Moft ftrength the moving principle requires ; Active its task , it prompts , impels , infpires . COMMENTARY . 55 60 65 principles are natural , not moral ; and , therefore , in them- felves , neither good nor bad , but fo only as they ...
Page 64
... moft defired ; and confequently , the purfuit of that will be the ruling Paffion . That the difference of force in this ruling Paffion fhall , at firft , perhaps , be very small or even imperceptible ; but Nature , Habit , Imagination ...
... moft defired ; and confequently , the purfuit of that will be the ruling Paffion . That the difference of force in this ruling Paffion fhall , at firft , perhaps , be very small or even imperceptible ; but Nature , Habit , Imagination ...
Page 69
... fuffer'd more ? B - for his Prince , or ** for his Whore ? Whofe felf - denials Nature moft controul ? His , who would fave a Sixpence or his Soulè Reason the byas turns to good from ill , And G 3 Ep . II . 69 ESSAY ON MAN.
... fuffer'd more ? B - for his Prince , or ** for his Whore ? Whofe felf - denials Nature moft controul ? His , who would fave a Sixpence or his Soulè Reason the byas turns to good from ill , And G 3 Ep . II . 69 ESSAY ON MAN.
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