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" Thofe call it pleafure, and contentment thefe : Some funk to beafts, find pleafure end in pain ; Some fwell'd to gods, confefs ev'n virtue vain; Or indolent, to each extreme they fati, To truft in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, fay... "
The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius - Page 153
by Aulus Gellius - 1795 - 438 pages
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An essay on man [by A. Pope]. With some humourous verses on the death of ...

Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1736 - 64 pages
...This bids to fenre, and that to fhun Mankind : 20 Some place the Blifs in Adlion, fome in Eafe, Thofe call it Pleafure, and Contentment thefe : Who thus...Happinefs ? One grants his Pleafure is but Reft from Pain ; 25 One doubts of All, one owns ev'n Virtue vain. Take Naturis Path, and mad Opinions leave, AH States...
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A Critical and philosophical Commentay on Mr. Pope's Essay on Man. In which ...

William Warburton - 1742 - 220 pages
...what was afked of them, each bufies himfelf to explain in what he placed his own peculiar Happinefs : Who thus define it, fay they more or lefs Than this, that Happinefs is Happinefs ? And here, before we go any farther, it will be proper to turn to our Logician, who, blind to theie...
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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alexander Pope, Esq, Volume 2

William Ayre, Edmund Curll - Poets, English - 1745 - 426 pages
...what was afked of them, each bufies himfelf to explain in what he plac'd bii own peculiar Happinefs : Who thus define it, fay they more or lefs Than this, that Happinefs is Happinefs? To proceed, the Poet having expofed the two falfe Species of Happinefs, the Pbilafophical and Popular,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...Virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, 25 To truft in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. ' Who thus define it, fay they more or lefs Than this, that Happinefs is Happinefs ? Take Nature's path, and mad Opinion's leave ; All ftates can reach it, and all heads conceive ; 30...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...Virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, . 25 To truft in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, fay they more or lefs Than this, that Happinefs is Happinefs ? Take Nature's path, and mad Opinion's leave ; All ftates can reach it, and all heads conceive ; 30...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 378 pages
...Virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, 2 5 To truft in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, fay they more or lefs Than this, that Happinefs is Happinefs ? Take Nature's path, and mad Opinion's leave; All ftates can reach it, and all heads conceive; 30...
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Essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - Decision making - 1762 - 160 pages
...bids toferve, and that to fhun mankind ¡ ZO Some place the blifs in attion , fome in eafe , Thofe call it pleafure , and contentment thefe : Who thus...happinefs is happinefs ? One grants his pleafure is but refl from pain , 2$ One doubts of all , one owns ev'n Virtue vain. TAKE Nature's path , and mad Opinion's...
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An Essay on Man: By Alexander Pope, Esq. Enlarged and Improved by the Author ...

Alexander Pope - Electronic books - 1763 - 154 pages
...Virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, 25 To truft in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, fay they more or lefs Than this, that Happinefs is Happinefs ? NOTES. VE R . 21,23. Same place the llifs in afllon, — Samifunk to beaftj, &c .] i .Thofe who place...
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An Essay on Man

Alexander Pope - 1763 - 150 pages
...Virtue vain ; Or indolent, to each extreme they fall, 25 To truft in ev'ry thing, or doubt of all. Who thus define it, fay they more or lefs Than this, that Happinefs is Happinefs ? NOTES. VE R . 21,23. Seme place the blifs in a/lion, — Some funk to beajls, (3V.JI .Thofe who place...
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The Jewish Spy: Being a Philosophical, Historical, and Critical ..., Volume 2

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer Argens (marquis d') - Antisemitism - 1766 - 388 pages
...This bids to fervc, and that to fliun Mankind : Some place the Rlifs in Adion, fome in Eafej Thofe call it Pleafure, and Contentment thefe. Who thus...Happinefs ? One grants his Pleafure is but Reft from Pain, Oae doubts of all, one owiis even Virtue vain. Thus,, L«t. 5-9. 'The JEWISH Spr. Thus, dear Jfaac,...
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