An essay on man. Cornish ed1798 |
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... Providence , while on the one hand he demands the perfections of the angels , and on the other the bodily qualifications of the brutes ; though to possess any of the sensitive faculties in a higher degree would render him miserable ...
... Providence , while on the one hand he demands the perfections of the angels , and on the other the bodily qualifications of the brutes ; though to possess any of the sensitive faculties in a higher degree would render him miserable ...
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... Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such , Say , here he gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet cry , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone ingross not heav'n's high ...
... Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such , Say , here he gives too little , there too much ; Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust , Yet cry , if man's unhappy , God's unjust ; If man alone ingross not heav'n's high ...
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... Providence all good and wise , Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 7. Far as creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in ...
... Providence all good and wise , Alike in what it gives , and what denies ? 7. Far as creation's ample range extends , The scale of sensual , mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race , From the green myriads in ...
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... Providence and general good are answered in our passions and imperfections .... How usefully these are distributed to all orders of Men .... How useful they are to Society , and to Individuals , in every state and every age of life ...
... Providence and general good are answered in our passions and imperfections .... How usefully these are distributed to all orders of Men .... How useful they are to Society , and to Individuals , in every state and every age of life ...
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... providence , they hung , Their law his eye , their oracle his tongue . He from the wand'ring furrow call'd the food , Taught to command the fire , controul the flood , Draw forth the monsters of th ' abyss profound , Or fetch th ...
... providence , they hung , Their law his eye , their oracle his tongue . He from the wand'ring furrow call'd the food , Taught to command the fire , controul the flood , Draw forth the monsters of th ' abyss profound , Or fetch th ...
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Էջ 32 - 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...
Էջ 100 - 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.
Էջ 28 - 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.
Էջ 71 - 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...
Էջ 35 - 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.
Էջ 74 - 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...
Էջ 78 - 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.
Էջ 108 - Were there all harmony, all virtue here; That never air or ocean felt the wind; That never passion discompos'd the mind.
Էջ 96 - 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...
Էջ 76 - 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.