 | Joseph Carroll - 1995 - 1096 pages
...from a perspective of coolly detached, ironic amusement: Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this...doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much;... | |
 | William Gerber - 1994 - 312 pages
.... A similarly mixed review of the human condition appears in Pope's Essay on Man, as follows: (473) Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, A being...doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; . . . Chaos of Thought and Passion, all confus'd; Still by himself abus'd, or... | |
 | 1994 - 1952 pages
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 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 pages
...instance, in the opening of book 2 of An Essay on Man: Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this...doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such. Whether he thinks too little, or too much:... | |
 | William A. Senior - 1995 - 298 pages
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 | William A. Senior - 1995 - 300 pages
...Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: "To Bear What Must Be Borne" Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus...or Beast; In doubt his Mind or Body to prefer, Born to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little,... | |
 | Ray Fuller, Patricia Noonan Walsh, Patrick McGinley - 1997 - 354 pages
...Know Thyself Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly...little or too much: Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused, or disabused; Created half to rise and half to fall; Great lord... | |
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KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride,... 
