 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...benevolence : Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from...wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; COMMENTARY. could convert selfishness into its very opposite ; and therefore teacheth that " Self-love... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...benevolence : Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. God loves below, So like my own without his bow, By beauty could your heart be won, Yo Sel f-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1824 - 622 pages
...own supposed good ; according to Mr. Pope's -system in his Essay on Man : ' Self love but serves tbe virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; 1 Rev. ill. 18. '1 Ret.... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...benevolence : Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from...still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts : but human son i Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love...still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...benevolenee : Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of eharity. God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from...virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaeeful lake ; The eentre mov'd, a eirele straight sueeeeds, Another still, and still another spreads;... | |
 | James Hervey - Dialogues, English - 1825 - 460 pages
...much more efficacious, in Aspasio's mamier of stating the affair, titan in the following famous Hues: Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | Henry Blake - Connemara (Ireland) - 1825 - 392 pages
...the union of moral and religious education, with the increasing powers of civilization — where " The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, " Another still, and still another spreads." — What, indeed, can be a better proof, that this careless and extravagant turn is not any necessary... | |
 | John Ireland - Apologetics - 1825 - 478 pages
...but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds; Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next; and next, all human race. itself in all the tender... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pages
...degree, And height of bliss but height of chanty. 360 God loves from whole to parts : bat human eoul little fragments neighbour, first It will embrace; His country next, and next all human race : Wide and more wide, the... | |
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God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds. Another still, and still... 
