The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essaysC. Bathurst, 1770 |
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... fupports , upheld by God , or thee ? II . Prefumptuous Man ? the reason would'st thou find , 35 Why form'd fo weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canft , the harder reason guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no ...
... fupports , upheld by God , or thee ? II . Prefumptuous Man ? the reason would'st thou find , 35 Why form'd fo weak , so little , and so blind ? First , if thou canft , the harder reason guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no ...
Page 48
... the best is fo far from weakening thofe natural arguments , that it ftrengthens and fupports them . For if thofe evils , to which good men are subject , Hope fprings eternal in the human breast : Man never 48 EP . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
... the best is fo far from weakening thofe natural arguments , that it ftrengthens and fupports them . For if thofe evils , to which good men are subject , Hope fprings eternal in the human breast : Man never 48 EP . I. ESSAY ON MAN .
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... Epiftles fhew , is this : That the Paffions , for the reafons given above , are neceffary to the fupport of Virtue : That , indeed , the paflions But ALL fubfifts by elemental ftrife ; And paffions are EP . I. 59 ESSAY ON MAN .
... Epiftles fhew , is this : That the Paffions , for the reafons given above , are neceffary to the fupport of Virtue : That , indeed , the paflions But ALL fubfifts by elemental ftrife ; And paffions are EP . I. 59 ESSAY ON MAN .
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... fupport of all that had preceded . For the Poet having , as we fay , laboured through his epiftle to prove , that every thing in the Universe tends , by a foreseen contrivance , and a prefent direction of all its parts , to the ...
... fupport of all that had preceded . For the Poet having , as we fay , laboured through his epiftle to prove , that every thing in the Universe tends , by a foreseen contrivance , and a prefent direction of all its parts , to the ...
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... fupport to the Manichean or Zoroaftrian error , the confuta- tion of which was one of the Author's chief ends in writing . For if there be two principles in Man , a good and evil , it is na- tural to think him the joint product of the ...
... fupport to the Manichean or Zoroaftrian error , the confuta- tion of which was one of the Author's chief ends in writing . For if there be two principles in Man , a good and evil , it is na- tural to think him the joint product of the ...
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