What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue. VOL. III. I What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives: T The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 120by Alexander Pope - 1804Full view - About this book
| Lindley Murray - 1819 - 276 pages
...done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue. 5. What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast...is paid, when man receives ; T' enjoy is to obey. 6. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think thee Lord alone of man, When... | |
| Jonathan Peele Dabney - 1821 - 318 pages
...done, Or warns me not to do : ThU, teach ine more than hell to shun, That, more than heav'n pursue. 4 What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast...God is paid when man receives ; T' enjoy is to obey. 5 Save me alike from foolish pride, Or impious discontent ; At aught thy wisdom has deny'd, Or ought... | |
| Hosea Ballou - 1821 - 408 pages
...theme immortal dwelling, Join the universal praise. TAYLOB. HYMN 227. CM The Universal Prayer. LORD, not to earth's contracted span, Thy goodness let me...Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round. 2 Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw ; And deal damnation round the land,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 278 pages
...be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than kell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God is paid, when man receives T enjo} K to rbey. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think the Lord alone... | |
| Dorothy Stimson - 1917 - 160 pages
...les Dames" was advertised in France in the forties.- By 1738 when Pope wrote the Universal Prayer: "Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let...Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round," . the Gopernican-Newtonian astronomy had become a commonplace to most well-educated people in England.... | |
| Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards - 1917 - 312 pages
...willing to rejoice always. My disposition and habits are not of the gloomy kind. I believe that 'to enjoy is to obey." Yet not to Earth's contracted span,...goodness let me bound; Or think thee Lord alone of man, Whilst thousand worlds are round." This period of quiet retirement did not lack its thrills of interest,... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 786 pages
...done, Or warns me not to do, — This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, — To enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think thee... | |
| 1918 - 2062 pages
...pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's contracted span...Lord alone of man, When thousand worlds are round: i Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume Thy bolts to throw And deal damnation round the land On... | |
| 1918 - 2068 pages
...done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound, Or think Thee Lord... | |
| James Harvey Robinson, James Henry Breasted, Charles Austin Beard - 1919 - 922 pages
...all I in ev'ry age, In ev'ry clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehova, Jove, or Lordl Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let...Lord alone of man. When thousand worlds are 'round. church fathers. But those who advanced them now were often '' free thinkers," who attacked the Christian... | |
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