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Essay on Man

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VIRO
IMMORTALI

TRANS
CHLORIN

MUND

ROMA TERRA

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ALEXANDER POPE, Efq.
Enlarged and Improved by the AUTHOR.
Together with his MS. Additions and Variations

as in the Laft Edition of his Works.

With the NOTES of

WILLIAM, Lord Bishop of GLOUCESTER.

A.Walker sculp

LONDON:

Printed for A. MILLAR, and J. and R. TONSON,

in the Strand. M DCC LXIII.

[Pr. 1 s. 6 d.]

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BY THE EDITOR.

HE ESSAY ON MAN, to use the Author's own Words, is a perfect Syftem of Ethics; in which Definition he included Religion: For he was far from that Opinion of the noble Writer of the Characteriftics, that Morality could long fupport itself, or have even a real existence, without a reference to the Deity. Hence it is that the first Epiftle regards Man with refpect to the Lord and Governor of the universe; as the second with respect to himself; the Third to Society; and the fourth, to happiness. Having therefore formed and finished his Effay in this View he was much mortified whenever he found it confidered in any other; or as a part and introduction only to a larger work. As appears from the conclufion of his fecond Dialogue, intitled M DCC XXXVIII, where he makes his impertinent adviser say,

Alas! alas! pray
end what you began,
And write next Winter, more Essays on Man,

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