Yet not to Earth's contracted Span, When thousand Worlds are round: Let not this weak, unknowing hand If I am right, thy grace impart, If am wrong, oh teach my heart NOTES. If I am right, thy grace impart, As the imparting grace on ftore men to the right than to keep them in it. But as it was the poet's purpose to infinuate that Revelation was the right, nothing could better exprefs his purpose than the making the right fecured by the guards of grace. Save me alike from foolish Pride, At ought thy Wisdom has deny❜d. Teach me to feel another's Woe, Mean tho' I am, not wholly fo Since quick'ned by thy Breath; Oh lead me wherefoe'er I go, Thro' this day's Life or Death. This day, be Bread and Peace my Lot: Thou know'ft if beft beftow'd or not, To thee, whose Temple is all Space, One Chorus let all Being raise! All Nature's Incense rife! C MORAL ESSAYS, IN FOUR EPISTLES то Several Perfons. Eft brevitate opus, ut currat fententia, neu se HOR. MORAL ESSAYS. EPISTLE I. то Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham. ARGUMEN T. Of the Knowledge and Characters of MEN. THAT it is not fufficient for this knowledge to confider Man in the Abstract: Books will not ferve the purpose, nor yet our own Experience fingly, I. General maxims, unless they be formed upon both, will be but notional, 10. Some Peculiarity in every man, characteristic to himself, yet varying from himfelf, 15. Difficulties arifing from our own Paffions, Fancies, Faculties, &c. 31. The shortnefs of Life, to obferve in, and the uncertainty of the Principles of action in men, to obferve by, 37, &c. Our own Principle of action often hid from ourselves, 41. Some few Characters plain, but in general confounded, dissembled, or inconfiftent, 51. The fame man utterly different in different places and seasons, 71. Unimaginable weaknesses |