 What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, That, more than Heaven pursue. What blessings Thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is paid when man receives, T  Poetical Works - Page 70by Alexander Pope - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...his Universal Prayer, though perhaps he may have expressed it rather too stronglv, where he says, C " What conscience dictates to be done, " Or warns me...THAN Hell to shun, " That MORE THAN Heaven pursue." The reader will observe, that this way of treating the subject of morals by an appeal to facts does... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...Thou art God, And that myself am blind : Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human...bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God is paid, when man receives — T' enjoy, is to obey. ' Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English poetry - 1923 - 162 pages
...blind ; Yet gave me in this dark estate To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate, Let free the human will. What conscience dictates to be...bounty gives Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives, T'enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound,... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - American literature - 1922 - 1920 pages
...art good, And that myself am blind: 8 Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human...What Conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not 10 do; This teach me more than Hell to shun, That more than Heaven pursue. "i What blessings thy free... | |
 | Satis Chandra Roy - India - 1923 - 434 pages
...there is no room for enjoyment or merry-making in the sphere of our moral life. As the poet has said, "What blessings Thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey." It is therefore morally imperative on us to be cheerful and... | |
 | John Drinkwater - English poetry - 1924 - 400 pages
...dictates to be done, Or warns me not to doe, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, That, more than Heav'n pursue. What Blessings thy free Bounty gives, Let me not cast away; For God is pay'd when Man receives; T'enjoy, is to obey. Yet not to Earth's contracted Span, Thy Goodness let... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And, binding nature fast ir fate, Left free the human will : What conscience dictates...than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty give* Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey. Yet not to earth's... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 pages
...confin'd To know but this, that Thou art Good, And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark Estate, And, binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the Human...not to do, This, teach me more than Hell to shun, 15 That, more than Heav'n pursue. What Blessings Thy free Bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For... | |
 | George Carver - American literature - 1926 - 504 pages
...art good, And that myself am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; IO And, binding Nature fast in Fate, Left free the human...not to do, This, teach me more than hell to shun, 15 That more than heaven pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God... | |
 | Philip Henry Wicksteed - 1926 - 708 pages
...would sin, though if he did he would go to hell. It is a startling commentary on the prayer of Pope : " What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not...than hell to shun, That, more than heaven pursue." It cannot be doubted, then, that Aquinas fully understands the process by which the intelligence may... | |
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