Essai sur l'hommechez Marc Chapuis, 1762 - 116 páginas |
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... ev'n at life's expence : The Merchant's toil , the Sage's indolence , The Monk's humility , the Hero's pride , All , all alike , find reafon on their fide . TH ' ETERNAL ART , educing good from ill , Grafts on this pasion our beft ...
... ev'n at life's expence : The Merchant's toil , the Sage's indolence , The Monk's humility , the Hero's pride , All , all alike , find reafon on their fide . TH ' ETERNAL ART , educing good from ill , Grafts on this pasion our beft ...
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... Ev'n thofe who dwell beneath its very Zone , Or never feel the rage , or never own ; What happier natures Shrink at with affright : The hard inhabitant contends is right . VIRTUOUS and vicious ev'ry Man muft be , Few in th ' extreme ...
... Ev'n thofe who dwell beneath its very Zone , Or never feel the rage , or never own ; What happier natures Shrink at with affright : The hard inhabitant contends is right . VIRTUOUS and vicious ev'ry Man muft be , Few in th ' extreme ...
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... Ev'n mean Self - love becomes , by force divine , The Scale to measure others wants by thine . See ! and confefs , one comfort ftill must rise , 275 ' Tis this , tho ' Man's a Fool , yet GOD IS WISE . 11 Chant Delamonce inv . Soubeyran ...
... Ev'n mean Self - love becomes , by force divine , The Scale to measure others wants by thine . See ! and confefs , one comfort ftill must rise , 275 ' Tis this , tho ' Man's a Fool , yet GOD IS WISE . 11 Chant Delamonce inv . Soubeyran ...
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... Ev'n kings learn'd juftice and benevolence ; Self - love forfook the path it first pursu'd , And found the private in the public good . 280 dieux remplis de partialité , d'inconstance , de paffion , 74 EP . III . ESSAY ON MAN .
... Ev'n kings learn'd juftice and benevolence ; Self - love forfook the path it first pursu'd , And found the private in the public good . 280 dieux remplis de partialité , d'inconstance , de paffion , 74 EP . III . ESSAY ON MAN .
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... ev'n Virtue vain . TAKE Nature's path , and mad Opinion's leave , All States can reach it , and all heads conceive ; Obvious ber goods , in no extreme they dwell , 20 25 ( a ) L'Auteur a défigné ici , premiérement , l'Epicurien ...
... ev'n Virtue vain . TAKE Nature's path , and mad Opinion's leave , All States can reach it , and all heads conceive ; Obvious ber goods , in no extreme they dwell , 20 25 ( a ) L'Auteur a défigné ici , premiérement , l'Epicurien ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 30 - With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, 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...
Página 9 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Página 25 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns; To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 97 - tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent; Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.
Página 57 - Know, Nature's children all divide her care; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, "See all things for my use!
Página 49 - The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven.
Página 82 - Parnassian laurels yield, Or reap'd in iron harvests of the field ? Where grows? where grows it not ? if vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
Página 30 - Created half to rise, and half to fall: Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 54 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Página 46 - 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.