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... Pride of Kings Let Us ( fince Life can little more fupply Than just to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this Scene of Man : A mighty Maze ! but not without a Plan ; AWild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ...
... Pride of Kings Let Us ( fince Life can little more fupply Than just to look about us , and to die ) Expatiate free o'er all this Scene of Man : A mighty Maze ! but not without a Plan ; AWild , where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot ...
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... pride and dulnefs comprehend His action's , paffion's , being's , Ufe and End ; Why doing , fuff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a Slave , the next a Deity ? 65 70 THEN fay not Man's imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say ...
... pride and dulnefs comprehend His action's , paffion's , being's , Ufe and End ; Why doing , fuff'ring , check'd , impell'd ; and why This hour a Slave , the next a Deity ? 65 70 THEN fay not Man's imperfect , Heav'n in fault ; Say ...
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... Pride ( my Friend ) our error lies ; All quit their Sphere , and rush into the Skies . Pride ftill is aiming at the bleft abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Afpiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Afpiring to be Angels ...
... Pride ( my Friend ) our error lies ; All quit their Sphere , and rush into the Skies . Pride ftill is aiming at the bleft abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Afpiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Afpiring to be Angels ...
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... pride , from pride , our very reas'ning Springs ; Account for moral , as for natral things : 150 Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? 155 In both , to reafon right , is to fubmit . BETTER for us , perhaps , it might appear ...
... pride , from pride , our very reas'ning Springs ; Account for moral , as for natral things : 150 Why charge we heav'n in those , in these acquit ? 155 In both , to reafon right , is to fubmit . BETTER for us , perhaps , it might appear ...
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... Pride that blessing find ) Is , not to act , or think , beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of foul to Share , But what his nature and his ftate can bear . Why has not Man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reafon , Man is not a fly ...
... Pride that blessing find ) Is , not to act , or think , beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of foul to Share , But what his nature and his ftate can bear . Why has not Man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reafon , Man is not a fly ...
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