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... those perhaps pardonable , has occafioned obfcurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much fenfe , how much thinking , how much obfervation on human life , is condenfed together in a fmall compass . He was fo accustomed to confine his ...
... those perhaps pardonable , has occafioned obfcurity . It is hardly to be imagined how much fenfe , how much thinking , how much obfervation on human life , is condenfed together in a fmall compass . He was fo accustomed to confine his ...
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... those paffages , to place them on the fide of religion , and make them coincide with the fundamental doctrines of revelation . How could Pope , in the letter which he wrote to Racine , the fon , 1742 , venture to fay , that his opinions ...
... those paffages , to place them on the fide of religion , and make them coincide with the fundamental doctrines of revelation . How could Pope , in the letter which he wrote to Racine , the fon , 1742 , venture to fay , that his opinions ...
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... those paffages , which he suggested as what might seem the most exceptionable . " To this teftimony of Richardfon , which is decifive , I will now add , that Lord Lyttelton , with his ufual franknefs and ingenuity , affured me , that he ...
... those paffages , which he suggested as what might seem the most exceptionable . " To this teftimony of Richardfon , which is decifive , I will now add , that Lord Lyttelton , with his ufual franknefs and ingenuity , affured me , that he ...
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... those of justice and goodness . He was much in the right to contract the gene- rality of his affertion . The abfurdity of afcribing temperance , for inftance , or fortitude , to God , would have been too grofs and too rifible , even to ...
... those of justice and goodness . He was much in the right to contract the gene- rality of his affertion . The abfurdity of afcribing temperance , for inftance , or fortitude , to God , would have been too grofs and too rifible , even to ...
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... those passages, which he suggested as what might seem the most exceptionable.” - To this testimony of Richardson, which is decifive, I will now add, that Lord Lyttelton, with his usual frankness and ingenuity, assured me, that he had ...
... those passages, which he suggested as what might seem the most exceptionable.” - To this testimony of Richardson, which is decifive, I will now add, that Lord Lyttelton, with his usual frankness and ingenuity, assured me, that he had ...
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Page 20 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below ? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play ? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Page 56 - 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...
Page 170 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 48 - All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good : And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, WHATEVER is, is RIGHT.
Page 127 - Some place the bliss in action, some in ease; Those call it pleasure, and contentment these: Some sunk to beasts, find pleasure end in pain ; Some...
Page 100 - Nor think, in Nature's state they blindly trod; The state of Nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man.
Page 63 - Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call...
Page 13 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise, Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 130 - But mutual wants this happiness increase, All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, Bliss is the same in subject or in king; In who obtain defence, or who defend, In him who is, or him who finds a friend : Heaven breathes through every member of the whole One common blessing as one common soul.
Page 70 - As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath Receives the lurking principle of death; The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength; So, cast and mingled with his very frame.