 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, $ % : & & &i'j'y ' U# reasoning but to err ; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 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...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 or too... | |
 | Ellis Sandoz - 1999 - 253 pages
...and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic pride, He hangs between; in doubt to 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... | |
 | John Cartwright - 2000 - 406 pages
...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...prefer. Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err. (Pope, 'Essay on Man') We share much of our basic anatomy and physiology with other animals: we eat,... | |
 | Peter J. Tamburro - 2016 - 598 pages
...and rudely great, With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest...prefer ; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err . . ,16 Less prone than either philosophy or poetry thus to insinuate man into his logical place in... | |
 | Diane Bjorklund - 2000 - 286 pages
...Alexander Pope's ([1734] 1969, p. 27) much earlier comment about humankind seems appropriate here: "In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; / In doubt his mind or body to prefer." On the one hand, it might be harmful to restrain impulses and emotions. But, as Max Weber (1949, pp.... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...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, pr rest; In doubt to deem himself a God, or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, Born but to... | |
 | Richard S. Gilbert - 2000 - 118 pages
...of a middle state/A being darkly wise and widely great/He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest/In doubt to deem himself a God or beast. In doubt his mind or body to prefer/Born but to die and reasoning but to err/ Sole judge of truth in endless error hurled/The glory,... | |
 | Manfred Kuehn - 2001 - 580 pages
...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...prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such Whether he thinks too little, or too much: Chaos of thought and... | |
 | James Noggle - 2001 - 288 pages
...as Pope says, "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...prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err ... (II, 5-10) As confidently declamatory as this is, it is in a sense more radically skeptical, more... | |
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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,... 
