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80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace , O Virtue ! peace is all thy own . The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them as they worse obtain . Say , in pursuit of profit or delight , Who risk ...
80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace , O Virtue ! peace is all thy own . The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them as they worse obtain . Say , in pursuit of profit or delight , Who risk ...
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200 210 “ But sometimes virtue starves , while vice is fed . ” What then ? is the reward of virtue bread ? 150 That , vice may merit , ' tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil , The knave deserves it ...
200 210 “ But sometimes virtue starves , while vice is fed . ” What then ? is the reward of virtue bread ? 150 That , vice may merit , ' tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it , when he tills the soil , The knave deserves it ...
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It is therefore to be steadily inculcated , that virtue is the highest proof of understanding , and the only solid basis of greatness ; and that vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts , that it begins in mistake , and ends ...
It is therefore to be steadily inculcated , that virtue is the highest proof of understanding , and the only solid basis of greatness ; and that vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts , that it begins in mistake , and ends ...
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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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