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VIRC

IMMORTAL

ST
TRANS

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.
Enlarged and Improved by the AUTHOR.
Together with his MS. Additions and Variations
as in the Last Edition of his Works.
With the NOTES of

WILLIAM, Lord Bishop of GLOUCESTER.

1. Walker sculp

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR, and J. and R. TONSON,
in the Strand. M DCC LXIII,

[Pr. 1 s. 6d.]

BODLEIAΛ

8 NOV 1929

LIBRARY

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE EDITOR.

BY

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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,
And write next Winter, more Effays on Man.

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