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" If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind, Or turns young Ammon loose... "
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton ...

William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...Commentaire, p, 79. f Examen de 1'Essai, &c. bUt but to the perfection of the universe in general. So that, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? On which the Examiner thus descants, — " These lines *' have no sense but on the system of Leibnitz,...
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The Works of Cornelius Tacitus: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 5

Cornelius Tacitus - Rome - 1813 - 444 pages
...Cttera forte accidentia. Seneca, De Constantia Sapientis, cap. 9. Pope has said in the same spirit: If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design. Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE? SECTION LXXVI. (a) The Treviri and Lingones had been persuaded by Cerealis to lay down their arms....
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...man's desire* ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. l things created first he weigh'd, The pendulous round...balanc'd air In counterpoise, now ponders all events, lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's...
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The Christian Repository, Volume 7

Theology - 1827 - 304 pages
...the circle mark'd by Heaven !" And as it respects moral evil, the same author remarks, "If storms and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?" Wherefore it ought always to be remembered by us, before we judge any matter relative to the divine...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 5

John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,...Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's...
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L'essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 254 pages
...cloudless skies , As Men for ever temp'rate , calm , and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heav'n's design , Why then a Borgia , or a Catiline ? Who knows but he , whose hand the light'ning forms , Who heaves old Ocean , and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce Ambition in a Caesar's...
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L'essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 252 pages
...cloudless skies , As Men for ever tempVate , calm , and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not HeavVs design ,. Why then a Borgia , or a Catiline ? Who knows but he , \vhose hand the light'ning forms , W ho heaves old Ocean , and who wings the storms ; Pours fierce...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. een with pow'rs combin'd, Of broken troops an easy conquest find. Clubs, Diamonds, lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Cœsar's...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...desires ; . As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temp* rate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? * 156 Who knows but he, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...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 1" Essay on Man, Ep. i. ver. 155. " This," says he, " approaches very nearly to the optimism of Leibnitz,...
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