 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...dark estate, To see the good from ill; W And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, 15 That more than heav'n pursue. *.. 4' THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER. What blessings thy free bounty gives... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 pages
...his Universal Prayer, though, perhaps, he may have expressed it rather too strongly, where he says, f What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me...than hell to shun, " That, more than heaven pursue." The reader will observe, that this way of treating the subject of morals, by an appeal to facts, does... | |
 | 1814 - 158 pages
...dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shoo, That, more than heav'n pursue : 5 What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let...enjoy is to obey. 6 Yet not to earth's contracted spaa Thy goodness let me bsund, Or think the Lord alone ot man, When thousand worlds are round. 7 Let... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...dark estate, To see the good from ill : And, binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not...This, teach me more than hell 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... | |
 | 1814 - 156 pages
...the good from ill, And, binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will :— i What conseience dictates to be 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 away ; For God is paid, when... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...this dark estate, To see the good from ill; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not...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, T'... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1820 - 264 pages
...his Universal Prayer, though perhaps he may have expressed it rather too stronglv, where he says, C " What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me...THAN Hell to shun, " That MORE THAN Heaven pursue." The reader will observe, that this way of treating the subject of morals by an appeal to facts does... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1820 - 80 pages
...model the Lord's prayer, which of all others best deserves the title prefixed to his paraphrase. 6* What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not...than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty give?, Let me not cast away;. For God is paid when man receives, T'... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. \ What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not...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 —... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will ; What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not...This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast a *v ay ; For God is paid, when... | |
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