 | 1808 - 408 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...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,...rest; In doubt to deem himself a god or beast ; In donbt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his... | |
 | Samuel Shuckford - 1808 - 428 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...of mankind 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...inn''h weakness for the Stojc's pride, He hangs Vein era ; In doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to di-cm' himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reasoning but tperrj 10 Alike in ignorance, his reason Biieh, Whether he thinks too little, or too much : Chaos of... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 Seiten
...nature : — 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...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... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 Seiten
...nature : • — 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...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... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 Seiten
...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 ; In dpubt to deem himself a god, or beast ; Ih, doubt, his mind, or body to prefer, Born but to die, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for -the sceptic side, 5 With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs...his mind or body to prefer ; Born but to die, and reas'ning.but to err ; 10 Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too... | |
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Know then thyself, 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 knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride,... 
