...of worse. Oh sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil survey And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure,...

...O, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, mountains piled on mountains, to the skies 7 ¡leaven . III. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole...

...nonentities. O, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ! Heaven still, with laughter, the vain toil survey! And buries madmen in the heaps they raise.* It is indeed, then, to borrow Mr Locke's metaphor, of no slight importance to know the length of our...

...said divinely well, for surely, in this instance, he prophesied, as well as sang, " Heaven with loud laughter the vain toil survey», And buries madmen in the heaps they raise." Dr Warburton had very early penetrated the views of Lord Bolingbroke ; and, observing some tincture...

...worse. Oh, sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil survey*, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise." Perhaps some may esteem so much poetry inapposite to the nature of our philosophical discussion ; but...

...rise By mountains piled on mountains, to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vuin toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Who wickedly is wise, or mtully biavc, Is but the more a fool, or mure a knave." Pope's Essay on Man. Havelock, never could...

...worse. Oh song of earth ! attempt ye still to rise, By mountains pil'd on mountains, to the skies F Heaven still with laughter the vain toil survey. And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure,...