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" 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 spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next,... "
The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors - Page 27
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...charity. 360 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...stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds. 365 Another stil5, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firstit...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register, Volume 53

British periodicals - 1822 - 688 pages
...for insertion. The lines of Pope are these : — " Sd Move but serves the virtnoni mind to wafcr, AB the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake." The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeedf, Another still, and still another spreadsFriend, parent, neighbour, first it will...
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Night Thoughts

Edward Young - 1798 - 432 pages
...but this must be distinguished from that sordid principle which not only begins but ends in self. ' Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, •As...stirs the peaceful lake ; , The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, * Another still, and still another spreads: ' Krientl, parent, neighbour, first...
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Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, with an Appendix ..., Volume 2

John Monck Mason - 1798 - 496 pages
...Essay on Man—- God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...stirs the peaceful lake. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads: Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will...
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Comments on the Plays of Beaumont and Fletcher: With an Appendix, Containing ...

John Monck Mason - English drama - 1798 - 494 pages
...Essay on ManGod loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...stirs the peaceful lake. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads: Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will...
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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...of charity. 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 center rnov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; =.' ' ' • —...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...charity. 360 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...stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, 365 Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...of Charity. God loves from "Whole to Parts : But human soul Must rise from Individual to the AVhole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'da circle strait succeeds , Another, still , and still another spreads ; Friend , parent , neighbour...
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The Literary Miscellany, Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of ...

Literature - 1805 - 420 pages
...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...the peaceful lake. «' The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, «' Another still, and still another spreads ; " Friend, parent, neighbor, first...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...of charity. God loves from whole to parts : but liuman soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will...
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