...presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle, state, A being darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much...In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In doubt bis mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason...

...mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wine, and rudely créât ; TVilh too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too...pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest, In dotiîil to deem hiiusclf a God or beast ; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Horn util tu die, and...

...presume not God to scan ; The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'J on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too ranch weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself...

...need of none other than their own direction. Of'this rank the poet deemed man, estimating him made, With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride.* To have light enough to see how he may, with a sufficient certainty, from known premises draw many...

...With too much knowledge Tor the Sceptic side, With too nmch weakness for the Stoic's pride, He liangj 'r, Shrinks his thin essence like a shrivcll'd flow'r : Or, as Ixion fix'd ; Jn dptfbt his. Mfntl »r Body to prefer ; Born but to die, uml reasoning 'but to err ; Alike in ignorance,...

...presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much...god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; fiom but to die, and reasoning but to err; 10 AKke in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks...

...presnme not God to scan, The proper study of mnnkjnd is man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too inn''h weakness for the Stojc's pride, He hangs Vein era ; In doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to di-cm'...

...weakness and blindness, with regard to his own nature : — Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; . '•> With...prefer, Born but to die, and reasoning but to err. And as he hath given this description of Man, for the very contrary purpose to which sceptics are wont...

...weakness and blindness, with regard-to his own nature : • — Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much...doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt, his rnind, or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reasoning but to err. And as he hath given this description...

...and blindness, with regard to his own nature : , • — Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic sidej With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act, 'or rest ;...