 | 1808 - 408 pages
...What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To serte mere engines to the ruling mind? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another, in this gen'ral frame ; Just as absurd to mourn the tasks or pains The great directing mind of all ordains. All are hut purls... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...any part to claim To be another in this general frame : Jnst as absurd, to mourn the tasks or paini The great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; Thit chang'd through all, and yet in all... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1811 - 286 pages
...be the head ? What if the head, the eye, or ear, repin'd To lerve mere engines to the ruling mind I: Juft as abfurd for any part to claim ; To be another,...this gen'ral frame : Juft as abfurd, to mourn the tafks or pains, . The great directing MIND OF ALL ordains. fcAll are but parts of one ftupendous \vholej.... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...the foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head ? Sfc. Just as absurd, for any part to claim To be another in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd, to mourn the task and pains The great directing *MlKD of ALL ordains. Who will not... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...foot, ordain'd the dust to tread, Or hand to toil, aspir'd to be the head ? (§'t\ Just as absurd, for any part to claim To be another in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd, to mourn the task and pains The great directing *MiND of ALL ordains. Who will not... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1814 - 254 pages
...God ! All this dread Order bi eak— for whom ? for thee ? Vik worm 1 oh madnefs ! pride! impiety! To be another, in this gen'ral frame : Juft as abfurd to mourn the tasks or pains, The great directing Mind of all ordains. Ail are but parts of one ftupendous whole,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...What if the head, the eye, orear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind ! Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another, in this gen'ral frame. Just as absurd to mourn the tasks Qr pains, The great directing MIND of ALL ordains. • All are but... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...What if the head, the eye, or ear repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling Mind ? Just as absurd for any part to claim To be another, in this gen'ral frame : Just as absurd to mourn the tasks or pains, 265 The great directing mind of all ordains. All are... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...absurd for any part to claim To be another, in this gen'ral frame, Jnst as absurd to mourn the tasks or pains, The great directing MIND of ALL ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul : That, ehang'd through all. and yet in all... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...if the head, the eye, or ear, repin'd To serve mere engines to the ruling mind? •'fflt as absurd for any part to claim To be another, in this gen'ral frame:. 'ml as absurd, to mourn the tasks or pains, The great directing MIND of ALL ordains. All are but parts... | |
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The great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the Earth, as in th... 
