| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 páginas
...SELF-KNOWLEDGE. KNOW thou thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...doubt to deem himself a God, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Bom but to die, and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance, his reason... | |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 páginas
...presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle stale, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much...doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such,... | |
| Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 páginas
...right. EPISTLE II. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan ! The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being...and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 páginas
...of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between : in doubt to act or rest ; In doubts to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'oing... | |
| Proclus - 1833 - 192 páginas
...man, in the above-mentioned philosophical poem, with no less accuracy than elegance, that he is, " Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great."— .Epis/. //. For man is situated between beings that eternally abide in the possession of real good,... | |
| 1834 - 372 páginas
...cough, and half groan, which emphatically bespoke the arduous nature of his day's duty. CHAPTER XXII. " With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With...doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god orjbeast." POPE. THE tortoise pace at which Rustum proceeded, accorded well with Alraschid's present... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 páginas
...EPISTLE II. I. KNOW then thyself; presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowlege for the sceptic side, 5 With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in... | |
| Arend Fokke - 1835 - 310 páginas
...gedachte de schrandere Engelschman Por E, in navolging van den Duitschen dichter , aldus uitdrukt : He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or rest , In doubt to deern himself a God , or Beast. Dat is : Hij -wankelt, in twijfel zijnde, of hij werken wil of rusten... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 páginas
...presume not God to scan • The proper studv of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle stato, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much...doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; 10 Alike in ignorance, his reason... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...God to acau} The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A heing u m m mVD s t tVt uXtYtZt)6 pY< F l'or the Stoie's pride, IIe hangs hetween ; in douht to act, or rest ; In douht to deem himself a god,... | |
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