The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton ...L. Hansard & sons, 1811 |
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... come . Now the reason why the Poet chuses to insist on this proof of a future state in preference to others , I con- ceive , is in order to give his system ( which is founded in a sublime and improved Platonism ) the utmost grace of ...
... come . Now the reason why the Poet chuses to insist on this proof of a future state in preference to others , I con- ceive , is in order to give his system ( which is founded in a sublime and improved Platonism ) the utmost grace of ...
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... comes next ( after this necessary prepa- ration ) to the confirmation of his thesis , That partial Moral Evil is universal Good : but introduceth it with a proper argument to abate our wonder at the phænome- non of moral evil , which ...
... comes next ( after this necessary prepa- ration ) to the confirmation of his thesis , That partial Moral Evil is universal Good : but introduceth it with a proper argument to abate our wonder at the phænome- non of moral evil , which ...
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... comes to the point , the confirmation of his thesis , by shewing how moral Evil promotes Good ; and employs the same concession of his adversaries , concerning natural Evil , to illustrate it . 66 1. He shews it tends to the good of the ...
... comes to the point , the confirmation of his thesis , by shewing how moral Evil promotes Good ; and employs the same concession of his adversaries , concerning natural Evil , to illustrate it . 66 1. He shews it tends to the good of the ...
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... comes into the world from the abuse of Man's free - will ; but that God , in his infinite wisdom , and goodness , deviously turns the natural bias of its malignity to the advancement of human happiness , and makes it productive of ...
... comes into the world from the abuse of Man's free - will ; but that God , in his infinite wisdom , and goodness , deviously turns the natural bias of its malignity to the advancement of human happiness , and makes it productive of ...
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... come next to shew what it is not ; namely , what that writer hath the injustice , or the folly , to represent it . He begins his examination , with saying , that " Mr. Pope seems to him , quite throughout his system , to embrace " the ...
... come next to shew what it is not ; namely , what that writer hath the injustice , or the folly , to represent it . He begins his examination , with saying , that " Mr. Pope seems to him , quite throughout his system , to embrace " the ...
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Page 66 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 146 - God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 54 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 63 - 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, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Page 72 - Describe or fix one movement of his mind? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning, or his end?
Page 31 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 59 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 98 - Praise the Lord from the earth, ye dragons and all deeps. Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind fulfilling his word.
Page 57 - Cease then, nor order imperfection name: Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: This kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit. — In this or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear; Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.
Page 346 - O fools, and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets have spoken ! Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory ? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them, in all the Scriptures, the things concerning himself.