 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 strani
...may go wrong, See then the acting and comparing jxiw'rs One in their nature, which are two iit ours ; h goary mouth thescreaming prey. What various sjxm'docs Who i in , lit the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their food? Prescient,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 strani
...could judge, he reason'd right; But as to man, mistook the matter quite. After ver. 84, in the MS. And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. Who taught tlie nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their food? 100 Prescient,... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 446 strani
...serves when prest ; Stays till we call, and then not often near ; But honest instinct comes a volunteer. And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man, The Commentator (who I will, in charity, suppose saw nothing of this fine and sober reasoning, nor... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 strani
...serves when prest ; Stays till we call, and then not often near ; But honest instinct comes a volunteer. And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man. The Commentator (who I will, in charity, suppose saw nothing of this fine and sober reasoning, nor... | |
 | John Nichols - 1812 - 754 strani
...under the mask of ridicule, fortius et melius than in professed serious and critical discourses." t " And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man." On the above couplet in the " Essay on Man," Dr. Warton observes, " Charron, of whom Pope and Bolingbroke... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 strani
...go wrong. See then the acting and comparing pow'ss 95 One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. Who After ver. 84 in the MS. While nun, with op'ning views of various w.sys Confounded, by the aid... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 strani
...go wrong. See then the acting and comparing pow'rs, 95 One in their nature, which are two in ours ; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. Who taught the nations of the field and wood, To shun their poison, and to chuse their food ? 100 Prescient,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 strani
...common sense of mankind. It is in this enlarged meaning that it is opposed to instinct by Pope : " And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can ; " In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis Man." It was thus, too, that Milton plainly understood the term, when he remarked, that smiles imply the... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 strani
...ANIMALS IS GENERAL. Behold the acting and compariug powers One in their nature, \vhich are two in ours! And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. FOPE. INSTINCTIVE ingenuity, in the construction of their habitations, is not confined to insects :... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 strani
...may go wrong. Stv then the acting and comparing powers One in their nature, which are two in ours ! ide beheld A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades ; The Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their food ? Prescient,... | |
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One in their nature, which are two in ours ! And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. 
