 | Charles Bucke - Anecdotes - 1837 - 360 pages
...philosophy; and to this end a passage may be quoted with advantage from Pope's Essay on Man:— ' Placed in this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise,...and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic's side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...every Oj» Of life. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being...In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to en- ; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...of life. I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd & &e r's'2 ' ' ' ' ' $ die, and reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English language - 1843 - 50 pages
...state, A being darkly wise, and richly great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, 5 With to much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between...; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err ; 10 Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, V The proper study of mankind is man. — — Plac'd aise his aim, To touch the finer movements of the mind, And with the moral beauty Ho hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; In doubt his... | |
 | Christian literature, American - 1844 - 398 pages
...of a middle Elate, A being darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the seeptic's side. With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,...or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast" But from this darkness and mystery, this chaos of conflicting principles in the nature of man, they... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...life, 263, &c. f I. KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan ; "The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being...great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, 5 With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, or rest ; In doubt... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Apologetics - 1846 - 396 pages
...reason and passion, conscience and desire, often seem to be, and are, opposing forces, and man is left "In doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast, In doubt his soul or body to prefer." " The intestine war of reason against the passions," says Pascal, " has given... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Apologetics - 1846 - 530 pages
...reason and passion, conscience and desire, often seem to be, and are, opposing forces, and man is left " In doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god or beast, In doubt his soul or body to prefer." " The intestine war of reason against the passions," says Pascal, " has given... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...The only science of Mankind is Man. — Warburton. With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, 5 With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs...or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast ; NOTES. great judgment, represented Men as doubting and wavering between the right and wrong object... | |
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KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,... 
