 | Benjamin Rush - 1981 - 735 страница
...is not the necessary consequence of ignorance and of the inactivity of the understanding. The "Wise is happy, nature to explore; , "The fool is happy that he knows no more." In this respect, you see the understanding differs from the senses and the passions; all the pleasures... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1986 - 77 страница
...desired, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself ; The learn'd are happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. The rich are happy in the plenty given ; The poor contents him with the care of heaven. Thus does some comfort... | |
 | Robert L. Cooper, Cooper, Robert Leon Cooper, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - 1989 - 216 страница
...Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy Nature to explore, The fool is happy that...of Heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing The sot a hero, lunatic a king; The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest, the... | |
 | Theodore M. Bernstein - 1995 - 487 страница
...is among the commonest and most effective of rhetorical devices. An example from Pope: "The learn'd is happy nature to explore, the fool is happy that he knows no more." CHIASMUS A heightener of dramatic or oratorical effect, chiasmus is the inversion in the second of... | |
 | Judith Nisse Shklar, Judith N. Shklar - 1998 - 402 страница
...happiness is mostly delusive, a socially induced madness. "The learn'd is happy nature to explore / The rich is happy in the plenty given / The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n / See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, / The sot a hero; lunatic a king" (II, 265-268).... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 669 страница
...familiar with her face. We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 8902 An Essay on Man The learn'd pes is a regular feature of normal human life. 8903 An Essay on Man Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a... | |
 | Kourosh Saeb-Parsy, Ravi G. Assomull, Fakhar Z. Khan, Kasra Saeb-Parsy, Eamonn Kelly - 1999 - 368 страница
...with 'instant' access. Readers might reflect on the words of Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The learn'd is happy nature to explore. The fool is happy that he knows no more. Alan W. Cuthbert Cambrige, UK February 1999 Instant Pharmacology is a book written by students, for... | |
 | Wendy Toliver - 2004 - 511 страница
...Doyle Whenever a person gets too big to study, he is as big as he ever will be. — Herbert V. Prochnow The learned is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy, that he knows no more. — Alexander Pope Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer — into selflessness... | |
 | David Zeigler - 2007 - 173 страница
...the study of life is also an aesthetic experience. —Daniel Chiras, Biology: The Web of Life, 1993 The learned is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more. — Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, 1732 Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain... | |
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The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. 
