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" In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. "
The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page xxxv
by Alexander Pope - 1807 - 408 pages
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...what thou fanciest such ; Say here he gives too little, there too much. — > In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring...
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Murray's English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the ...

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...fanciest such ; Say here he gives too little, there too much.— 6. In pride, in reas'ning pride, oar error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. t Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...what thou fanciest such ; Say here he gives too little, there too much. — 6 In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes ; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...God's unjust ; If Man alone engross not Heav'n's high care, Atone made perfect here, immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Rejudge his justice, be the God of God. In Pride, in reas'ning Pride, our errour lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...thou fanciest such* ; Say here he gives too little', there too much*.— G In pride', in reas'ning pride', our error lies* ; All quit their sphere',...rush into the skies*. Pride still is aiming at the blest adodes* ; Men would be angels', angels would be gods*. Aspiring to be gods', if angels fell',...
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Much Instruction from Little Reading: Or, Extracts from Some of the Most ...

Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company. ***** In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, ... *...
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English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...Say here he gives too little, there too much. — 6. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; 5 All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes; Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell, Aspiring...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...God's unjust : If man alone engross not Heaven's high care. Alone made perfect here, immortal there : Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod, Re-judge his justice, be the god of God. t In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies? All quit the sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride...
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Letters to a friend, intended to relieve the difficulties of an anxious ...

Thomas Charlton Henry - 1829 - 356 pages
...cause, by bringing into play so unhallowed, so selfish, and so petulant a temper ? A. temper that would Snatch from His hand the balance and the rod; Rejudge his justice, be the god of God. If he who thinks himself refused, would pause a moment, and ponder the effect which that supposed refusal...
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Natural Theology: Or, Essays on the Existence of Deity and of ..., Volume 1

Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 652 pages
...of ours is not so constituted, as he, in his self-sufficient wisdom would presumptuously prescribe. "In pride, in reasoning pride our error lies ; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies." SECTION IV. " Desinuut enim suum judicium adhibere ; id habent ratum, quod ab eo, quem probant, judicatum...
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