An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best ...
... earth , why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade ? Or ask of yonder argent fields above , Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove ? Of systems possible , if ' tis confest That wisdom infinite must form the best ...
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... Earth for whose use ? Pride answers , " Tis for mine . " For me kind Nature wakes her genial pow'r , " Suckles each herb , and spreads out ev'ry flow'r ; ` " Annual for me , the grape , the rose renew " The juice nectareous and the ...
... Earth for whose use ? Pride answers , " Tis for mine . " For me kind Nature wakes her genial pow'r , " Suckles each herb , and spreads out ev'ry flow'r ; ` " Annual for me , the grape , the rose renew " The juice nectareous and the ...
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... earth , my canopy the skies . " But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend ? When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep ? " No ( ' tis ...
... earth , my canopy the skies . " But errs not nature from this gracious end , From burning suns when livid deaths descend ? When earthquakes swallow , or when tempests sweep Towns to one grave , whole nations to the deep ? " No ( ' tis ...
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... earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began ; Natures ¿thereal , human , angel , man , Beast ...
... earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God began ; Natures ¿thereal , human , angel , man , Beast ...
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... earth , unbalanc'd , from her orbit fly , Planets and suns run lawless thro ' the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd , Being on being wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their center nod , And ...
... earth , unbalanc'd , from her orbit fly , Planets and suns run lawless thro ' the sky ; Let ruling angels from their spheres be hurl'd , Being on being wreck'd , and world on world ; Heav'n's whole foundations to their center nod , And ...
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Page 34 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much...
Page 102 - What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do — This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue.
Page 30 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name; Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heav'n bestows on thee. Submit. — In this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear: Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 73 - For forms of government let fools contest ; Whate'er is best administer'd is best : For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight ; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 37 - Two Principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, 111.
Page 76 - Ask of the Learn'd the way? The Learn'd are blind; This bids to serve, and that to shun mankind; "° Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it Pleasure, and Contentment these...
Page 80 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Page 110 - Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind.
Page 98 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 78 - Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell ; There needs but thinking right and meaning well ; And mourn our various portions as we please, Equal is common sense and common ease. Remember man, " the Universal Cause Acts not by partial but by general laws," And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all.