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... His can't be wrong whose life is in the right ; In faith and hope the world will disagree , But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end : And all of God that bless mankind or mend .
... His can't be wrong whose life is in the right ; In faith and hope the world will disagree , But all mankind's concern is charity : All must be false that thwart this one great end : And all of God that bless mankind or mend .
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Heaven to mankind impartial we confess , If all are equal in their happiness : But mutual wants this happiness increase ; All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace . Condition , circumstance , is not the thing ; Bliss is the same ...
Heaven to mankind impartial we confess , If all are equal in their happiness : But mutual wants this happiness increase ; All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace . Condition , circumstance , is not the thing ; Bliss is the same ...
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They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment , nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that God is ...
They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment , nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that God is ...
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Contents
General Introduction | 1 |
Alexander Pope | 15 |
ESSAY ON MAN | 60 |
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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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