Excerpt from An Essay on Man OF the poems of pope, none perhaps is more celebrated in popular fame, none has afforded more paffages for {toring in the memory, and applying on common occafions, than the essay ON man. It cannot, therefore, be an uninteref'cing topic, to enquire what has given it fuch a {bare of the public approbation; and how its author has contrived to render it at the fame time the favourite of the graver part, and the admiration of the more poliihed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.