Moral essaysA. Millar, 1757 |
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abſurd anſwer becauſe beſt bleſſing bleſt bliſs Cæfar cauſe character chuſe COMMENTARY conclufion confifts conſequence conſiſts courſe Dæmon deſcribes deſcription deſign eaſe Effay epiſtle ev'ry expoſed faid falſe fame firſt folly fome fool foul gives happineſs hath Heav'n human illuſtration inſtance Inſtinct int'reſt itſelf juſt knave laſt leſs Man's Mankind mind moral evil moſt muſt Nature Nature's neceſſary NOTES obſervation Paſſions perſon philoſophic pleaſure Poet Poet's pow'r praiſe preſent pride principle purpoſe raiſe Reaſon Religion Reſnel reſt riſe roſe ruling Angels ruling Paffion ſame ſays ſcience ſecond ſee ſeen Self-love ſenſe ſerve ſet ſeveral ſhade ſhall ſhe ſhewn ſhews ſhine ſhould ſkies ſmall ſmile ſome ſpeaking ſpecies ſphere ſpirit ſprings ſtands ſtate ſtation ſtill ſtrength ſtrong ſubject ſuch ſupport ſuppoſed ſyſtem thee theſe things thoſe thro Tranſlator true truth Univerſe uſe VARIATIONS Vice Virtue whole whoſe
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Page 169 - If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Page 28 - Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled...
Page 73 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades ; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 171 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Page 146 - Heroes are much the same, the point's agreed, From Macedonia's madman to the Swede; The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find, Or make, an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Page 89 - And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
Page 47 - 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; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err...
Page 27 - Each seeming want compensated of course, Here with degrees of swiftness, there of force; All in exact proportion to the state; Nothing to add, and nothing to abate. Each beast, each insect, happy in its own: Is Heav'n unkind to Man, and Man alone?
Page 6 - Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.
Page 94 - Let them praise the name of the Lord: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.