The Works of Alexander Pope Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete. With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; ... Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warbuton, 3. köideJ. and P. Knapton, H. Lintot, J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, and C. Bathurst, 1752 |
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... tion , or expecting that perfection in the moral world , which is not in the natural , 131 , & c . VI . The un- reasonablenefs of his complaints against Providence , while on the one hand he demands the Perfections of the Angels , and ...
... tion , or expecting that perfection in the moral world , which is not in the natural , 131 , & c . VI . The un- reasonablenefs of his complaints against Providence , while on the one hand he demands the Perfections of the Angels , and ...
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... tion in all its parts ; there muft needs be , in some part or other of the scale of reasoning life , fuch a creature as MAN : Which reduces the dispute to this abfurd question , Whether God has placed him wrong ? VER . 51. Refpecting ...
... tion in all its parts ; there muft needs be , in some part or other of the scale of reasoning life , fuch a creature as MAN : Which reduces the dispute to this abfurd question , Whether God has placed him wrong ? VER . 51. Refpecting ...
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... tion of an Univerfe , where every thing tends , by a foreseen contrivance in all its parts , to the perfection of the whole . But allow him to employ the paffage in the fenfe of St. Paul , That we and all creatures live and move and ...
... tion of an Univerfe , where every thing tends , by a foreseen contrivance in all its parts , to the perfection of the whole . But allow him to employ the paffage in the fenfe of St. Paul , That we and all creatures live and move and ...
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... tion ( from 18 to 31 ) that the highest advances in natural knowledge may be eafily acquired , and yet we , all the while , continue very ignorant of our felves . For that neither the clearest fcience , which refults from the Newtonian ...
... tion ( from 18 to 31 ) that the highest advances in natural knowledge may be eafily acquired , and yet we , all the while , continue very ignorant of our felves . For that neither the clearest fcience , which refults from the Newtonian ...
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... tion to bring any of the Ape's qualities , but its fagacity , into the comparison . But why the Ape's , it may be faid , rather than the fagacity of fome more decent animal , particularly the half - reafoning elephant , as the poet ...
... tion to bring any of the Ape's qualities , but its fagacity , into the comparison . But why the Ape's , it may be faid , rather than the fagacity of fome more decent animal , particularly the half - reafoning elephant , as the poet ...
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