...not fallen under our examination, is by concluding them to be analogous to what we have observed : ' Of God above, or man below, What can we reason but from what we know.' Now the only fact we know with respect to the moral government of God, is that the distribution of...

...proprie miracula quasi in seipsis et simpliciter mira.' (Summa, lib. i., dist. 18, Q. i., art. 3.) Say, first, of God above or Man below What can we reason but from what we know ? . . . Thro' worlds unnumber'd, tho' the God be known, 'T«s ours to trace Him only in our own. ....

...similarity and resemblance. — David Hume, "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding," Section IX Say first, of God above or man below, What can we...station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Thro' worlds unnumber'd, tho' the God be known, Tis ours to trace him only in our own. — Alexander...

...proper task was to come to terms with the world at his own level — Thro' worlds unnumbered though the God be known 'Tis ours to trace Him only in our own. If there had been any advantage to man in peering at the more minute details of the world, Providence...

...class-specific phenomenon. Here Pope emphasizes the philosophical concept of empirical limits to human reason: "Say first, of God above, or Man below, / What can we reason, but from what we know?" (17-18) in contradistinction to divine omniscience: " 'No ('tis reply'd) the first Almighty Cause /...

...Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to Man. (Fr. Epistle I) 60 il a painted boat. (1. 35-40) 17 The Judge looked back as he climbed the hill, An (Fr. Epistle I) 61 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. (Fr. Epistle I) 62 Then say not Man's imperfect,...

...are bound to time and the known: "what can we reason," run the famous lines from the Essay on Man, "but from what we know?": Of man what see we, but...station here, From which to reason, or to which refer? Thro' worlds unnumber'd tho' the God be known, "ïïs ours to trace him only in our own. (505) For...

...or justification of a democratic society.—c. B. MACPHERSON, Democratic Theory: Essays in Retrieval Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know. —ALEXANDER POPE, An Essay on Man Faith Faith is an island in the setting sun But proof, yes Proof...

...Sitter, Literary Loneliness, pp. 161-62, notes the implied challenge to Pope, Essay on Man 1.17-18: "Say first, of God above, or Man below, / What can we reason, but from what we know?" The challenge is moderated, however, at Pleasures 3.7-11: "The spacious west, / And all the teeming...

...Moscow. He concluded it was more important that Avrum snap out of his dark mood, and he had an idea. "'Say first, of God above or man below, what can we reason but from what we know?' " Hershel's quote from Milton did the trick. Avrum raised his head, chuckled and came back to earth....