| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...late, or here or there ? The blest to-day, is as completely so As who began a thousand years ago. 3. Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : • Or who could... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1799 - 408 pages
...And fmooth the bed of Death. COTTON. SECTION IX. Providence vindicated in the jirt'Jent State of Man. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent flate ; From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know, Or who could fuffer being here below? The... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...or there ? The blcft to-day is as completely Co, 75 As who began a thoufand years ago. III. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prefcrib'd, their prefent Hate: From brutes what men, from men what fpirits kno» i Or who could fuffef Being here below ? to... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...the fool that uses it. SHAKESPEARE,. CHAP. XII. The present Condition of man vindicated. H, LEAv'N from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd their present states From brutes what men , i'rom men what spirits. ( know, Or who could... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...parity owing to our IGNORANCE of FUTURE EVENTS, partly to our HOPE of a FUTURE STATE. (POPE.) HEAVEN from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state : From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 802 pages
...is upon the earth; ; aqua tick are thofe, whofe tonftant abode is upon the water. Locke. — Htav'rr from all creatures hides the book of fate, ' All but the page prefcrib'd this prefent ftate ; From brutes what men, from men what fpirits know; Or who could firffer being here... | |
| Samuel Bulfinch Emmons - Spiritualism - 1857 - 302 pages
...permit nothing to take place but what would be for our best good, and that of all concerned. '' Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed — their present state ; Prom brutes what men, from men what angels know; Or who could... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...And smooth the bed qf death. corf on, SECTION IX. PROVIDENCE VINDICATED IN THB PRESENT STATE O» MAN. HEAV'N from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'cl, their present state ; From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who could suffer... | |
| William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...knowledge, if communicated, would be even pernicious to Man, and make him neglect or desert his duty here. Heav'n from all creatures hides the Book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, the present state, From brutes what men, from men what spirits know, Or who would suffer... | |
| William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...distract you, or draw you from your station ; it was m " mercy that God hath hid these things from you : Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state, From brutes what Men, from Men what spirits know ; Or who would suffer... | |
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