 | Thom Scott - 1824 - 622 Seiten
...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...lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; 1 Rev. ill. 18. '1 Ret. 10. Friend, patent, neighbour, first... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1824 - 490 Seiten
...moral affections ; it is not any self-love, reflecting on the enjoyments that are thus to be obtained. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 Seiten
...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...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of eharity. God loves from whole to parts : but human soul er by learning ; At least, it's your temper, as very...That you think very slightly of all that's your own peaeeful lake ; The eentre mov'd, a eirele straight sueeeeds, Another still, and still another spreads;... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 460 Seiten
...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...stirs the peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1826 - 522 Seiten
...moral affections ; it is not any self-love, reflecting on the enjoyments that are thus to be obtained. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds ; Another st,ll, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 Seiten
...delusive theories of education and social improvement. — Our great moral poet has justly observed, " ' Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1826 - 878 Seiten
...citation of the passage will form a complete illustration of my subject — " Self-love but series the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centra moved, a circle first succeeds, Another still, and still another breeds; Parent, friend, neighbour,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 190 Seiten
...mind lo wake As i In- small pebble stirs tht- peaceful lake The centre mov da circle straight succeeds Another still and still another spreads Friend parent neighbour first it will embrace His cuuiitry next and next all human race Wide an • more wide th o erflo- ings of the mind Take HV ry... | |
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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 another... 
