An Essay on ManMaynard, Merrill & Company, 1890 - 64 pages |
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... 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 ; Born but to die , and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether ...
... 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 ; Born but to die , and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance , his reason such , Whether ...
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... Stoics boast Their virtue fixed : ' tis fixed as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it may ravage , but preserves the ...
... Stoics boast Their virtue fixed : ' tis fixed as in a frost ; Contracted all , retiring to the breast ; But strength of mind is exercise , not rest : The rising tempest puts in act the soul , Parts it may ravage , but preserves the ...
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... . The medium assumed in astronomy and physics as filling all space . It was believed by some of the Stoics to be the animating prin- ciple of all things . The link dissolves , each seeks a fresh embrace , ESSAY ON MAN . 41.
... . The medium assumed in astronomy and physics as filling all space . It was believed by some of the Stoics to be the animating prin- ciple of all things . The link dissolves , each seeks a fresh embrace , ESSAY ON MAN . 41.
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... Stoics . Ease . Stoics . - POPE . See note 101 on Epistle II . 23. Epicureans . - POPE . 24. Stoics . - POPE . 25. Indolent is an adjective agreeing with they . 26. Skeptics . - POPE . 27 , 28. Do they , who thus define it , say more or ...
... Stoics . Ease . Stoics . - POPE . See note 101 on Epistle II . 23. Epicureans . - POPE . 24. Stoics . - POPE . 25. Indolent is an adjective agreeing with they . 26. Skeptics . - POPE . 27 , 28. Do they , who thus define it , say more or ...
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adjective agreeing ALEXANDER POPE alike Alludes ancient angels apposition ARGUMENT OF EPISTLE beast began blessing blest bliss breathes Cæsar Catiline chain Cicero confest connected creature Decius Dunciad earth embrace Epistle II Essay etc.-POPE eternal ethereal faith fame feel fool formed French Revolution gives govern happier happiness Heaven hope human imperfection indefinite pronoun infinitive mode instinct Julius Cæsar kings laws learned light lives Lord man's mankind means mind moral nature Nature's never nominative note to line noun numbers o'er object pain participle passions perfect Philomela planets pleasure poet poetical Pompey Pope preposition pride principle pronoun relative pronoun rise ruling angels Self-love and social sense shade sire soul spheres Stoics substantive phrase taught thee things thou thy reason tion toil touch truth Turenne Twickenham verb vice virtue weak Whate'er whole wise wrong