 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 lehte
...or too much : Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused ; • Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord...hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! [guides ; Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 lehte
...little or too much : Chaos of thought and passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused or disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord...error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests... | |
 | Bruno Barnhart - 1999 - 292 lehte
...ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Still by himself abused or disabus'd Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ' The Pauline expression of this human duality is a moral conflict. So I find it to be a law that when... | |
 | Ellis Sandoz - 1999 - 253 lehte
...but to err; . . . Chaos of Thought and Passion all confus'd. Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall, Great lord...endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest and riddle of the world.2 Government under such conditions was pronounced (by James Madison in Federalist No. 51) as... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 lehte
...little, or too much: Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! An Essay on Man (1733) 1950: Epistle 2, 53-56. 2 For Forms of Government let fools contest; Whate'er... | |
 | Edward Harrison - 2000 - 586 lehte
...little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused: Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Alexander Pope (1688-1744), An Essay on Man 2 "Behold... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2001 - 368 lehte
...himself a god or beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Created half to rise, and half to fall, Great lord...error hurl'd; The glory, jest and riddle of the world. —Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man': CONTENTS Introduction: Blurry Lines and Fuzzy Sets: The Boundary... | |
 | Orson Scott Card - 2001 - 606 lehte
...books. It's not as if the boy understood any of what he spouted. Ta-DUM ta-DUM ta-DUM ta DUM ta-DUM. Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. Just as John was about to cry aloud, about to run... | |
 | Manfred Kuehn - 2001 - 580 lehte
...by himself abus'd, or disabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of things, yet prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. Notes Prologue 1 . The Declaration was published on August 28 of 1799. See Immanuel Kant, Gesammelte... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 776 lehte
...beings as suspended between the divine and the animal, a predicament at once laughable and lamentable, Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all. 96 Darwin, by contrast, painted a wholly optimistic, naturalistic and this-worldly picture, grounded... | |
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Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! 
