 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring...the laws Of order, sins against the Eternal Cause, V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, " 'Tis for mine:... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...Aspiring to be angels, men rebel ; And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against th' Eternal Cause. 130 V. Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? Pride answers, " Tis for mine t " For me kind Nature wakes her genial power, " Suckles each herb,... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1833 - 202 pages
...err'd before ?" In the middle of the second foot, the pause may be used, but produces little melody. " And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against the eternal cause." Harmony is produced by a proportion between the members of the same verse, or between the members of... | |
 | Horse racing - 1833 - 776 pages
...irreversible decree of nature, to which providence placed its seal on the day that America was discovered — And who but wishes to invert the laws Of order, sins against th' Eternal cause.] BRINE, — A CURE FOR CANINE DISTEMPER. MR. EDITOR: Having observed that one of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, 125 Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring...but wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th' Eternal Cause. 130 v. Ask for what end the heav'nly bodies shine, Earth for whose use ? Pride answers,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Biography & Autobiography - 1977 - 678 pages
...error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies! Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring...if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels men rebel." 4. George Cabot. To Oliver Wolcott, Junior l [New York, December, 1800] Your last letter,2 My Dear... | |
 | Steadman Upham - History - 1990 - 344 pages
...UPHAM 1 Decoupling the processes of political evolution STEADMAN UPHAM New Mexico State University Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring...Gods if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels men rebel. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man How many angels can sit on the head of a pin? For archaeologists and... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - History - 1997 - 388 pages
...error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring...but wishes to invert the laws Of ORDER, sins against th'Eternal Cause.33 The first epistle of the Essay on Man culminates in the well-known proclamation,... | |
 | Nancy Dean - Education - 2000 - 164 pages
...pride of angels with the intent of stressing the dangers of perverting the "natural order" of things: Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell,/ Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel. Pope furthers his argument by comparing Satan's fall from grace (when he rebelled against God) to man's... | |
 | William Whewell - Philosophy - 2001 - 534 pages
...tendency to selfglorification. You will recollect how much of this warning there is in the Essay on Man : Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine — Earth for whose use ? Pride answers, 'tis for mine : And the rest of the passage. To imagine ourselves of so much consequence... | |
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In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring to be angels, men rebel... 
