| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...living as they rise : Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. Her joy in gilded chariots, when alive, And love of ombre, after death survive ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? [known. Through... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...is not in the power of the most compassionate, on some occasions, to restrain their mirth ; and I. Say first, of God above, or Man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of Man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? 20 COMMENTARY.... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. 3 Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know; Of man what see we, but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Through worlds unnumber'd,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...is not in the power of the most compassionate, on some occasions, to restrain their mirth ; and I. Say first, of God above, or Man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of Man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? 20 COMMENTARY.... | |
| Ashbel Green - Presbyterian Church in the U.S. - 1824 - 500 pages
...being." We would just caution such reasoners to ponder well the words of the poet when he says — — " Of God above or man below, " What can we reason but from what weknow ?" This reasoning is a sophism. Give it the syllogistic form and it stands thus — Major —... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. 1. Say first, of God above or man below What can we reason but from what we know ? Of man what see we but his station here, From which to reason or to which refer ? [known, Through... | |
| Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1827 - 424 pages
...justly conclude that the theory is false; for, as Pope himself, to his own condemnation, demands, " Of God above, or man below, What can we reason but from what we know ?" Now, in casting a mere glance around us, we are first struck by the certainty that we see a great... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...must be intensive, in prose, to express a thought forcibly, are equally necessary in poetry. EXAMPLES. Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn supports, — upheld by God, or thee ? Who... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...not fallen under our examination, is by concluding them to be analogous to what we have observed. " Of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know ? " Now, the only fact we know with respect to the moral government of God is, that the distribution... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. • „ 3 Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know; Of man what see we, but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Through worlds unnumber'd,... | |
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