An Essay on Man: To which are Added, the Universal Prayer, and Other Valuable Pieces, Selected from His WorksM'Carty and Davis, 1821 - 72 páginas |
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... moral precept , or to examine the perfection or imperfection of any crea- ture whatsoever , it is necessary first to ... morality . If I could flatter myself that this essay has any merit , it is in steering betwixt the extremes of ...
... moral precept , or to examine the perfection or imperfection of any crea- ture whatsoever , it is necessary first to ... morality . If I could flatter myself that this essay has any merit , it is in steering betwixt the extremes of ...
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... moral world which is not in the natural , 127 to 140. The unreasonableness of his complaints against providence , while on the one hand he demands the perfections of the angels , on the other hand the bodily qualifications of the brutes ...
... moral world which is not in the natural , 127 to 140. The unreasonableness of his complaints against providence , while on the one hand he demands the perfections of the angels , on the other hand the bodily qualifications of the brutes ...
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... moral , as for natʼral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean ...
... moral , as for natʼral things : Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? In both , to reason right , is to submit . Better for us , perhaps , it might appear , Were there all harmony , all virtue here ; That never air or ocean ...
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... head or generous mind , Follower of God , or friend of human kind , Poet or patriot rose but to restore The faith and morals nature gave before ; 265 270 275 280 285 Re - lum'd her ancient light , not kindled new EPISTLE III . 39.
... head or generous mind , Follower of God , or friend of human kind , Poet or patriot rose but to restore The faith and morals nature gave before ; 265 270 275 280 285 Re - lum'd her ancient light , not kindled new EPISTLE III . 39.
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... moral ill ? There deviates nature , and here wanders will . God sends not ill ; if rightly understood , Or partial ill is universal good , Or change admits , or nature lets it fall ; Short , and but rare , ' till man improv'd it all ...
... moral ill ? There deviates nature , and here wanders will . God sends not ill ; if rightly understood , Or partial ill is universal good , Or change admits , or nature lets it fall ; Short , and but rare , ' till man improv'd it all ...
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Términos y frases comunes
act the soul alike ambition angels beast behold blessing blind bliss breath chain cobbler confest confin'd creature crown'd death E'er earth ease EPISTLE eternal Ev'n ev'ry eyes faith fall fame father fear fix'd flood flow'r fool foreign hands thy forever form'd future GANSEVOORT giv❜n gives glory God's Gods gold gradation happiness heart heav'n Heroes hope human imperfection indolent instinct justice kings knave laws Learn learn'd living Lord man's mankind MESSIAH mind mix'd monarch moral mountains mourn nature nature's nature's law never Nymph o'er pain passions peace perfect plac'd Pleas'd pleasure pow'r pride proud Rhine rill rise self-love and social sense seraph shade shine sire skies slaves sphere spleen springs taught tear tempests thee thine things thou thro TILDEN toil trembles truth tyrant virtue's weak Whate'er whole wings wise
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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,
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 50 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 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.
Página 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