 Yet serves to second too some other use. So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal ; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.  The Cambridge Examiner - Page 2401881Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Shuckford - History, Ancient - 1808 - 428 pages
...determine very wrong concerning much of what we can only partially consider in forming our judgment. Respecting man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to'all. POPE. The circle of our own agency, wonderfully operating over and by the powers of the creatures... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...rank as Man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) IB only this, it' God has plac'd him wrong ? - labor'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its ends... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...is, that whatever is wrong in our private system, is right, as relative to the whole [1. 50 to 53.] Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to ALL. That it may, he proves [from 1. 52 to 61.] by shewing in what consists the difference between the systematic... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...this perverseness ! Mr. Pope, in this very Epistle, has himself thus explained Whatever is, is right, Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call, May, must be right, as relative to all, •• — So Man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown, Touches... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...as man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong ? 50 Respecting man, whatever wrong we call, May, must...purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its end produce ; 55 Yet serves to second too some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts... | |
 | William Magee - Atonement - 1812 - 532 pages
...thought we find happily conveyed by Mr. Pope, in his Essay on Man : " In human works, (ho' laboured on with pain, " A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain; " In God's, one single does its end produce ; " Yet serves to second too, some other use."— In the illustration of this... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...as man ; And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong ? 50 Respecting man, whatever wrong we call, May, must...purpose gain ; In God's one single can its end produce,. 55 Yet serves to second too some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...rank as Man : And all the question -(wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong ? Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call May, must be right, as relative to all. In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain : In God's, one single can... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...man,- whatever wrong we call, May, mast be right, as relative to ail. In human works, though laber?d OB with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose...God's, one single can its -end produce, Yet serves la second, too, some other use. So man, who here seems principal alone, 'Perhaps acts second to some... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...rank as man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has plac'd him wrong ? Respecting man, whatever wrong we call May, must be right, as relative to all. In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain : In God's, one single can... | |
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