An Essay on Man: To which are Added, the Universal Prayer, and Other Valuable Pieces, Selected from His WorksM'Carty and Davis, 1821 - 72 pages |
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... breath , Receives the lurking principle of death ; 125 130 The young disease , that must subdue at length , 135 Grows with his growth , and strengthens with his strength : So , cast and mingled with his very frame , The mind's disease ...
... breath , Receives the lurking principle of death ; 125 130 The young disease , that must subdue at length , 135 Grows with his growth , and strengthens with his strength : So , cast and mingled with his very frame , The mind's disease ...
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... breath , and die ) Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne , They rise , they break , and to that sea return . Nothing is foreign - parts relate to whole ; One all - extending , all - preserving soul Connects each being , greatest with ...
... breath , and die ) Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne , They rise , they break , and to that sea return . Nothing is foreign - parts relate to whole ; One all - extending , all - preserving soul Connects each being , greatest with ...
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... made the son expire , 105 Why , full of days and honour , lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath , When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long can 46 ESSAY ON MAN .
... made the son expire , 105 Why , full of days and honour , lives the sire ? Why drew Marseilles ' good bishop purer breath , When nature sicken'd , and each gale was death ? Or why so long ( in life if long can 46 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... breath , A thing beyond us , e'en before our death . Just what you hear , you have ; and what's unknown , The same ( my lord ) if Tully's or your own . 240 All that we feel of it , begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or ...
... breath , A thing beyond us , e'en before our death . Just what you hear , you have ; and what's unknown , The same ( my lord ) if Tully's or your own . 240 All that we feel of it , begins and ends In the small circle of our foes or ...
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... breath ; Oh ! lead me wheresoe'er I go , Through this day's life or death . This day be bread and peace my lot : All else beneath the sun , Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not ; And let thy will be done . To Thee , whose temple is all ...
... breath ; Oh ! lead me wheresoe'er I go , Through this day's life or death . This day be bread and peace my lot : All else beneath the sun , Thou know'st if best bestow'd or not ; And let thy will be done . To Thee , whose temple is all ...
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Page 64 - Happy the man*, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread, Whose flocks supply him with attire, Whose trees in summer yield him shade, In winter, fire.
Page 58 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue.
Page 59 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 16 - Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear,
Page 6 - AWAKE, my St. John ! leave all meaner things To low ambition and -the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die...
Page 9 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 17 - 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...
Page 50 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 63 - O'erflow thy courts : the Light himself shall shine Reveal'd, and God's eternal day be thine ! The seas shall waste, the skies in smoke decay, Rocks fall to dust, and mountains melt away ; But fix'd his word, his saving power remains; Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own MESSIAH reigns !" My dear children, make this king of Zion your friend, by sweetly submitting to the sceptre of his grace.
Page 10 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th