...own plans. Yet how specious seems the argument when advanced in such a couplet as " If plagues and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline t " No one ever, perhaps, seriously believed that men learnt the arts of life by imitating animals,...

...Man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia, or a Catiline \ Who knows but lie, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,...

...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why, then, a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,...

...for a proper name ; or an office, or profession, or science instead of the true name of a person. 1. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline f — POPE. 3. Galileo, the Columbus of the heavens. 3. The Niobe of nations, there she stands, Childless...

...orthodox.' But what sense but one is it possible to attach to such passages as the following ? — If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design. Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows, but He, whoso baud the lightning forms, Who hpaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms,...

...and bayonets? How is it a pious duty to do honour to such manifestations of the Divine will ? — ' If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,...capable of working evil. This tendency of the human mind to form for itself malevolent and maleficent deities to be propitiated by blood and pain, has led an...

...and bayonets? How is it a pious duty to do honour to such manifestations of the Divine will ? — ' If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design,...capable of working evil. This tendency of the human mind to form for itself malevolent and maleficent deities to be propitiated by blood and pain, has led an...

...man's desires ; As much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why, then, a Borgia or a Catiline? Who knows, but He whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours...

...in power ? " The philosophic poet answers the question by another equally puzzling: "If storms and earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ?" The Indians had, for some time previous to the English Revolution, shown signs of hostility. Some...

...ruin, and death, by a hurricane and a pestilence."* Pope expresses a similar sentiment in the lines, " If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? " We need not go to the Scriptures to learn that, to the apprehension of men, in proportion to the...