 Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "Tis ours to trace him only in our own.  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Six Volumes Complete: Imitations, moral ... - Page 44by Alexander Pope - 1787Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known, Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 pages
...what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason or to which refer 'I Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...astronomical term, but chiefly a military and hierarchical one, which stresses man's limitedness of purview. Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who thro' vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system... | |
 | Doris Appel Graber - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1976 - 404 pages
...from what we know? Of Man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Thro' worlds unnumber'd, tho' the God be known, Tis ours to trace him only in our own. — Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man," Epistle I, Line 17 Words are "epiphenomena which exist on the surface... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - History - 1982 - 422 pages
...proper task was to come to terms with the world at his own level — Thro' worlds unnumbered though the God be known 'Tis ours to trace Him only in our own. If there had been any advantage to man in peering at the more minute details of the world, Providence... | |
 | Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...was an actual structure of physical existence - the image of a quasi-Newtonian field of vast spaces. Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, Tis ours to trace him only in our own, He, who thro' vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system... | |
 | Michael Caputo - Religion - 2000 - 248 pages
...we know? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Through worlds unnumber'd, tho' the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace Him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into... | |
 | Neil deGrasse Tyson, Donald Goldsmith - Science - 2004 - 398 pages
...life on Earth. CHAPTER 13 Worlds Unnumbered Planets Beyond the Solar System Thro ' worlds unnumbered tho ' the God be known, Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into... | |
 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - 2002 - 480 pages
...we but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Through worlds unnumber'd though the God be known, 'Tis ours to trace him only in our own.' Alexander Pope (1688-1744) 'Essay on Man' epist. i. 'An ocean of infinities Where all our thoughts... | |
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