You inquire, What does Mr. Adams think of Napoleon ? If you had asked Mrs. Adams, she would have replied to you in the words of Pope : — " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Xapoline 'I " I am authorized to... The Women of the American Revolution - Page 30by Elizabeth Fries Ellet - 1848 - 396 pagesFull view - About this book
| Religion - 1847 - 782 pages
...anticipates. That " Glory to God in the highest" will accrue from it in some way, we have no doubt. " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline V At the feeble malice of those who thus take counsel against the Lord and against his Anointed,... | |
| Theology - 1847 - 776 pages
...anticipates. That " Glory to God in the highest" will accrue from it in some way, we have no doubt. ' " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline 1" At the feeble malice of those who thus take counsel against the Lord and against his Anointed,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...with each other, and with his own avowed opinion ;" as a proof of which, he instances the lines, " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline?" Essay on Man, Ep. i. ver. 155. " This," says he, " approaches very nearly to the optimism... | |
| William Henry Channing - Christian sociology - 1850 - 706 pages
...it in any way ? Is not He more properly the Reformer ? Is it not perfectly plain, that, "If storms and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Cataline ? Who knows, but He whose hand the lightning forme, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the... | |
| James Bryce - Education - 1852 - 630 pages
...conduct. It is after such sort that, in one of his essays, Mr. Hume writes. Founding on this couplet of Pope — " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Cataline?" he makes his SCEPTIC to reply: "then my own vices will be a part of the same order." This... | |
| David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 586 pages
...oppression ? But the vices and imperfections of men arc also comprehended in the order of the universe. If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Let this be allowed, and my own vices will also be a part of the same order. * PLUT. Dc... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1854 - 660 pages
...fallen into various expressions, equally inconsistent with each other and with his own avowed opinions : If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline '•— Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms. * World (it inn-i be remembered)... | |
| Alonzo Potter - History - 1855 - 436 pages
...amongst apostles, as missionaries of the Most High—preadjusted parts in nature's universal plan. If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? This may be the philosophy of a rationalizing poet, but it is surely not the philosophy... | |
| Apologetics - 1855 - 436 pages
...amongst apostles, as missionaries of the Most High — preadjusted parts in nature's universal plan. If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? This may be the philosophy of a rationalizing poet, but it is surely not the philosophy... | |
| John Young - Good and evil - 1858 - 356 pages
...without any cause at all ... If misery brings with it its utility, why may not wickedness ? ' If storms and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Cataline ?' Wherefore it ought always to be considered that, though sin in us, who see no farther than... | |
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