VIRC IMMORTAL ST GLORI ROMA ÆTEREA Here in the rich, the honourd fam'd & great. See the false scale of Happines compleat. ESSAY ON MAN. BY ALEXANDER POPE, Efq. WILLIAM, Lord Bishop of GLOUCESTER. 1. Walker sculp LONDON: Printed for A. MILLAR, and J. and R. TONSON, [Pr. 1 s. 6d.] ADVERTISEMENT. THE EDITOR. BY T HE ESSAY ON MAN, to use the Author's own Words, is a perfect System of Ethics; in which Definition he included Religion: For he was far from that Opinion of the noble Writer of the Characteristics, that Morality could long support itself, or have even areal existence, without a reference to the Leity. Hence it is that the first Epistle regards Man with respect to the Lord and Governor of the universe; as the second with respect to himself; the Third to Society; and the fourth, to happiness. Having therefore formed and finished his Elssay in this View he was much mortified whenever he found it considered in any other; or as a part and introduction only to a larger work. As appears from the conclusion of his second Dialogue, intitled MDCCXXXVIII, where he makes his impertinent adviser say, Alas! alas! pray end what you began, |