The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, H. Lintot, and C. Bathurst, 1757 |
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... fupports , upheld by God , or thee ? II . Presumptuous Man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd fo weak , fo little , and so blind ? First , if thou canft , the harder reafon guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ...
... fupports , upheld by God , or thee ? II . Presumptuous Man ! the reason wouldst thou find , Why form'd fo weak , fo little , and so blind ? First , if thou canft , the harder reafon guess , Why form'd no weaker , blinder , and no less ...
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... fupports them . For if thofe evils , to which good men are fubject , be mere Disorders , without any tendency to the greater good of the whole ; then , though we muft indeed conclude that they will hereafter Hope fprings eternal in the ...
... fupports them . For if thofe evils , to which good men are fubject , be mere Disorders , without any tendency to the greater good of the whole ; then , though we muft indeed conclude that they will hereafter Hope fprings eternal in the ...
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... fupports our idea of divine wif- dom to the higheft religious purpofes . Then , as to the good man's hopes of a retribution , thefe ftill remain in their ori- ginal force : For our idea of God's juftice ; and how far that juftice is ...
... fupports our idea of divine wif- dom to the higheft religious purpofes . Then , as to the good man's hopes of a retribution , thefe ftill remain in their ori- ginal force : For our idea of God's juftice ; and how far that juftice is ...
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... to Vice . His fyftem , as all his Ethic Epiftles fhew , is this : That the Paffions , for the reasons given above , are neceffary to the fupport of Virtue ; But ALL fubfifts by elemental ftrife ; And paffions are 4 24 EP . I. ESSAY ON MA N.
... to Vice . His fyftem , as all his Ethic Epiftles fhew , is this : That the Paffions , for the reasons given above , are neceffary to the fupport of Virtue ; But ALL fubfifts by elemental ftrife ; And paffions are 4 24 EP . I. ESSAY ON MA N.
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... fupport of all that had preceded . For the poet having , as we fay , laboured through his epistle to prove , that every thing in the Uni- verfe tends , by a forefeen contrivance , and a prefent di- rection of all its parts , to the ...
... fupport of all that had preceded . For the poet having , as we fay , laboured through his epistle to prove , that every thing in the Uni- verfe tends , by a forefeen contrivance , and a prefent di- rection of all its parts , to the ...
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