 | Henry Wace - 1876 - 352 pages
...ruin, and death, by a hurricane and a pestilence."* Pope expresses a similar sentiment in the lines, " If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? " We need not go to the Scriptures to learn that, to the apprehension of men, in proportion to the... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1877 - 340 pages
...ruin, and death, by a hurricane and a pestilence."1 Pope expresses a similar sentiment in the lines, " If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?" We need not go to the Scriptures to learn that, to the apprehension of men, in proportion to the... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - 1877 - 650 pages
...the massacre of St. Bartholomew, the fall of Poland, and the great unexpiated crimes of history. " If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? " And after all that has been written by enthusiastic dreamers in favor of human progress and perfectibility,... | |
 | Francis Garden - 1878 - 280 pages
...by the accomplished artist himself. Here moral evil itself is brought into the net of optimism. ' ' If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, Whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and Who wings the storms... | |
 | Francis Garden - 1878 - 280 pages
...by the accomplished artist himself. Here moral evil itself is brought into the net of optimism. ' ' If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, Whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and Who wings the storms... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1879 - 130 pages
...man's desires : As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies As men forever temperate,* calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...men more just: As much eternal springs and cloudless skies As men forever temperate, calm and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but he whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temp'rate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the light'ning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 pages
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temp'rate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the light'ning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms... | |
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Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind... 
