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Shorter arguments and sketches gathered into books. Useful when you want a mind at work without a plot. The copies live on Open Library.
An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires is an effort to rationalize or rather "vindicate the ways of God to man" (l. 16), a variation of John Milton's claim in the opening lines of Paradise Lost, that he will "justifie the wayes of God to men".
An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744), published. An Essay on Criticism is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently paraphrased as "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".