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 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 頁
...likewise to some greater good in the moral, as appears from the sublime images in the following lines : , If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design,...Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Csesar's... | |
 | David Hume - 1804 - 592 頁
...vices and imperfections of mtit are also comprehended in the order of the universe : Jf plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Let this be allowed ; and my own vices will also be ^ part of the same order. To one who said, that... | |
 | 1807 - 350 頁
...the medium, physical ne^' cessity the immediate cause of a change of ^overnim-nt in that country. " If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design, " Why then a Borgia or a Cataliue ?" We are not proof against impressions, and " every act of the will is invariably in proportion... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 頁
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,...Borgia or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightuing forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Ceesar's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 頁
...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,...Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wiugs the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a C&esar's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 頁
...man's desires; As mnch eternal springs and clondless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Cataline ? Who knows, but lie whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 頁
...man's desires; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catalinej Who knows, but he whose hand the lightning forms. Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 頁
...man's desires; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or,a Catallne; Who knows, but be whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who w iups... | |
 | Cornelius Tacitus, Arthur Murphy - 1811 - 518 頁
...ceetera forte accidentia. Seneca, De Constantia Sapientis, cap. 9. Pope has said in the same spirit : If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Section LXXVI. (a) The Treviri and Lingones had been persuaded by Cerealis to lay down their arms.... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 頁
...Commentaire, p. 79. f Examen de 1'Essai, &c. but but to the perfection of the universe in general. So that, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia- or a Catiline ? On which the Examiner thus descants, — " These lines " have no sense but on the system of Leibnitz,... | |
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