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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! "
The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 46
by Alexander Pope - 1863
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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...endless 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope ...: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...thonght and passiou, all coufused; Still by himself ahused or disahused ; Created half to rise, or e oft at evening read, Where divers authors jndge of trnth, in endless error hurl'd : The glory', jest, and riddle of the world 1 Go, woudrous...
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The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic ...

Ellis Sandoz - 1999 - 253 pages
...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 himself abus'd,...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 - 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;...endless error 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...
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Dissonante Harmonie: zur kulturanthropologischen Bedeutung symbolischer Formen

Thorsten Paprotny - 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...endless Error 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...
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Social Science Quotations: Who Said What, When, and Where

David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much: Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd,...endless Error 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;...
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Cosmology: The Science of the Universe

Edward Harrison - 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 - 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...endless 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 - 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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Kant: A Biography

Manfred Kuehn - 2001 - 580 pages
...err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such Whether he thinks too little, or too much: Chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd, Still by himself abus'd,...Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of things, yet prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle...
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