 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
 | Christopher Anderson - Education - 1828 - 302 pages
...say purblind policy, will prove just as inefficient as it has done hitherto. In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's, one single doth its end produce. And serves to second too some other use. That ' other use' in the present instance... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 420 pages
...of miseries alone Distinguished long, and tecontt now to none. Pope. la human works, though laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its ends produce, Yet serves to wound too some other use. U. Persons of iscand rate merit in their own... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...man, v.-hatever wrong wo call, May, must bo right, as relative to all. In human works, though laboured r, Spain has sent a thousand jars of oil; serve to second too tome other use. So man, who here seems principal alone. Perhaps acts second to... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...dependencies, Gradations just, has thy pervading soul Look'd through ? Or, can a part contain the whole? 6 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... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Irish - 1830 - 374 pages
...purblind policy, will prove just as inefficient as it has done hitherto :— In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's, one single doth its end produce, And serves to second to some other use. That " other use" in the present instance... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 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... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...rank as man : And all the question (wrangle e'er so long) Is only this, if God has placed him wrong ? Respecting Man, whatever wrong we call May, must be right, as relative to all. In human works, though laboured on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain : In God's, one single can... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 408 pages
...quotation from Lord Bolingbroke, are almost word for word found in these lines. " In human works though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce...God's one single can its end produce, Yet serves to secoud too, some other use." Many more parallel passages might be quoted to establish the identity... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - Biology - 1834 - 660 pages
...recognise their infinite superiority' over every corresponding invention of man. " In human works, though labour'd on with pain, A thousand movements scarce one purpose gain ; In God's, one single can its ends produce, Yet serves to second too some other use." POPE. We may generally observe, in the mechanism... | |
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