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Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or systems into ruin hurld , And now a bubble burst ...
Oh blindness to the future ! kindly given , That each may fill the circle mark'd by Heaven : Who sees with equal eye , as God of all , A hero perish , or a sparrow fall , Atoms or systems into ruin hurld , And now a bubble burst ...
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40 10 And , mourn our various portions as we please , Equal is common sense and common ease . Remember , man , “ The Universal Cause Acts not by partial , but by general laws ” ; And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist , not in ...
40 10 And , mourn our various portions as we please , Equal is common sense and common ease . Remember , man , “ The Universal Cause Acts not by partial , but by general laws ” ; And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist , not in ...
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... of a constitution according to their ideas , would be much palliated to their feelings ; you see why they are so much enamoured of your fair and equal representation , which being once obtained , the same effects might follow .
... of a constitution according to their ideas , would be much palliated to their feelings ; you see why they are so much enamoured of your fair and equal representation , which being once obtained , the same effects might follow .
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Enlightenment and English Literature: Prose and Poetry of the Eighteenth Century, with Selected Modern Critical Essays |
| Editor | John L. Mahoney |
| Publisher | D. C. Heath, 1980 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0669023213, 9780669023213 |
| Length | 765 pages |
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