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" 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! "
An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 77
by Joseph Warton - 1806
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...reason sueh, Whether he thinks too little or .too mueh ; Chaos of thought and passion, all eonfus'd ; ) * ! Go, wondrous ereature ! mount where seienee guides, Go, measuie earth, weigh air, and state the tides...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...little or too much : Chaos of thought and passion, all confused ; Still by himself abused or disabused ; Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord...error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! Or tread the mazy round his followers trod, And quitting sense call imitating God ; As Eastern priests...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...or too much : Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused ; • Created half to rise, and half to fall ; Great lord...hurl'd ; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world ! [guides ; Go, wondrous creature ! mount where science Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the...
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The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic ...

Ellis Sandoz - Political Science - 1999 - 253 pages
...act or rest; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; . . . Chaos of Thought and Passion all confus'd. Still by...endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest and riddle of the world.2 Government under such conditions was pronounced (by James Madison in Federalist No. 51) as...
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Second Simplicity: The Inner Shape of Christianity

Bruno Barnhart - Religion - 1999 - 292 pages
...Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Still by himself abused or disabus'd Created half to rise, and half to fall;...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! ' The Pauline expression of this human duality is a moral conflict. So I find it to be a law that when...
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Dissonante Harmonie: zur kulturanthropologischen Bedeutung symbolischer Formen

Thorsten Paprotny - Language and languages - 1999 - 254 pages
...little, or too much. Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, ordisabus'd; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!" (Alexander Pope, Essay on Man) „Ich glaube der Mensch ist am Ende ein so freies Wesen, daß ihm das...
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Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where

David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - Social Science - 2000 - 466 pages
...reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much: Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still...hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! An Essay on Man (1733) 1950: Epistle 2, 53-56. 2 For Forms of Government let fools contest; Whate'er...
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Cosmology: The Science of the Universe

Edward Harrison - Science - 2000 - 586 pages
...little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all confused: Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world! Alexander Pope (1688-1744), An Essay on Man 2 "Behold...
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense

Michael Shermer - Science - 2001 - 368 pages
...himself a god or beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Created half to rise, and half to fall, Great lord...error hurl'd; The glory, jest and riddle of the world. —Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man': CONTENTS Introduction: Blurry Lines and Fuzzy Sets: The Boundary...
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Saints

Orson Scott Card - Fiction - 2001 - 606 pages
...books. It's not as if the boy understood any of what he spouted. Ta-DUM ta-DUM ta-DUM ta DUM ta-DUM. Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord...prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. Just as John was about to cry aloud, about to run...
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