The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essaysC. Bathurst, 1770 |
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... fince , to prove any moral duty , to enforce any moral precept , or to examine the perfection or imper- fection of any creature whatsoever , it is neceffary first to know what condition and relation it is placed in , and what is the ...
... fince , to prove any moral duty , to enforce any moral precept , or to examine the perfection or imper- fection of any creature whatsoever , it is neceffary first to know what condition and relation it is placed in , and what is the ...
Page 37
... ( fince Life can little more fupply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; 5 A Wild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous fhoot , Or Garden , tempting ...
... ( fince Life can little more fupply Than just to look about us and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; 5 A Wild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous fhoot , Or Garden , tempting ...
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... fince all 66 began : " And what created perfect ? " - Why then Man ? COMMENTARY . If VER . 141. But errs not Nature from this gracious end , ] The author comes next to the confirmation of his Thefis , That partial moral Evil is ...
... fince all 66 began : " And what created perfect ? " - Why then Man ? COMMENTARY . If VER . 141. But errs not Nature from this gracious end , ] The author comes next to the confirmation of his Thefis , That partial moral Evil is ...
Page 59
... fince the Whole began , " Is kept in Nature , and is kept in Man . " We fee , therefore , it would be doing great injuftice to our author to fufpect that he intended , by this , to give any en- couragement to Vice . His fyftem , as all ...
... fince the Whole began , " Is kept in Nature , and is kept in Man . " We fee , therefore , it would be doing great injuftice to our author to fufpect that he intended , by this , to give any en- couragement to Vice . His fyftem , as all ...
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... fince the whole began , Is kept in Nature , and is kept in Man . 170 VI . What COMMENTARY . paffions in excefs , produce Vice , which is , in its own nature , the greatest of all evils , and comes into the world from the abuse of Man's ...
... fince the whole began , Is kept in Nature , and is kept in Man . 170 VI . What COMMENTARY . paffions in excefs , produce Vice , which is , in its own nature , the greatest of all evils , and comes into the world from the abuse of Man's ...
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