 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 páginas
...Essay on Man. ' 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...his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 páginas
...Essay on Man. ' 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...his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err ; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 572 páginas
...Essay on Man. * 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...too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs betweeii ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God or beast ; In doubt his mind or... | |
 | Willoughby Jones - 1872 - 516 páginas
...there to be hurried. What a life is this! From the cradle to the grave, less than forty years. " Placed on this isthmus of a middle State, A being darkly...his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much... | |
 | Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 páginas
...II, lines 1-7 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...weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, . . . ?Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-5), "Night the Ninth," lines 742-50, 772-3, 1018-21 This... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 páginas
...instance, in the opening of book 2 of An Essay on Man: Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this...doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such. Whether he thinks too little, or too much:... | |
 | William A. Senior - 1995 - 300 páginas
...Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: "To Bear What Must Be Borne" Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus...or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, Born to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little,... | |
 | Ray Fuller, Patricia Noonan Walsh, Patrick McGinley - 1997 - 354 páginas
...Know Thyself 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...doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such Whether he thinks too little or too much:... | |
 | Richard Storey - 1997 - 252 páginas
...drivers or restrainers. Amplify the drivers, weaken the restrainers. Chapter 10 Obtaining a decision With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With...pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; Alexander Pope People often hover on the brink of decision, needing a gentle nudge to help them take... | |
 | Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 páginas
...uncertain, and amaz'd." Pope borrowed from both of these poems for a famous passage in An Essay on Man: Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being...doubt his mind or Body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or disabus'd;... | |
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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 knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,... 
