An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of man's error and misery .... The ... pride of such a desire .... The consequence of all the absolute submission due to Providence , both as to our ...
... pride of aiming at more knowledge , and pretending to more perfection , the cause of man's error and misery .... The ... pride of such a desire .... The consequence of all the absolute submission due to Providence , both as to our ...
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... pride , in reas'ning pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be Gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if angels fell , Aspiring ...
... pride , in reas'ning pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be angels , angels would be Gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if angels fell , Aspiring ...
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... pride , from pride our very reas'ning springs ; Account for moral , as for nat'ral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit , Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , 20 EP ...
... pride , from pride our very reas'ning springs ; Account for moral , as for nat'ral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit , Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , 20 EP ...
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... pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear , Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . : Say ...
... pride that blessing find ) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share , But what his nature and his state can bear , Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason , man is not a fly . : Say ...
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... , And nature tremble to the throne of God . All this dread Order break ! --- for whom ? for thee ! Vile worm ! --- Oh madness ! pride ! impiety ! : 9. What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to 26 ΕΡ . Ι . ESSAY ON MAN .
... , And nature tremble to the throne of God . All this dread Order break ! --- for whom ? for thee ! Vile worm ! --- Oh madness ! pride ! impiety ! : 9. What if the foot , ordain'd the dust to 26 ΕΡ . Ι . ESSAY ON MAN .
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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.