 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...  The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine, conducted ... - Page 139edited by Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...man's desires; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies. As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. D Cauline; Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning fern». Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - Liberalism (Religion) - 1841 - 408 pages
...material universe, he felt bound to reconcile the existence and goodness of God ; " If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why, then, a Borgia or a Catiline ?" Luther was but one of a thousand in the Church, who cherished feelings, which, like his own in their... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...man's desires; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. o lightning forms. Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms; Pours fierce ambition in a Cesar's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English language - 1843 - 50 pages
...skies, As men forever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not heavens design, 155 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... | |
 | 1843 - 534 pages
...general evil, and made to flow from it, and, consequently, that whatever is, is right:— If plagues and earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline. The THIRD HYPOTHESIS to which I have referred is that of the idealists, or those who maintain that... | |
 | Louis Malesherbes Goldsborough - Navies, Cost of - 1845 - 36 pages
...man's desires : As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men forever 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 Ctesar's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...desires? As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. Ifplagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline t Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms. Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
 | Religion - 1847 - 782 pages
..." 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, he... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 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?" Essay on Man, Ep. i. ver. 155. " This," says he, " approaches very nearly to the optimism of Leibnitz,... | |
 | Theology - 1847 - 776 pages
...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, he... | |
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