 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 486 pages
...by a due observation of this order, than by any of those sublira^ refinements that pervert $. 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 : Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 480 pages
...effectually by a due observation of this order, than by any of those sublime refinements that pervert it 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... | |
 | John Corry - London (England) - 1809 - 236 pages
...river, or a mountain, will no longer be considered as a pretext for selfish distinctions among men. " 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 ; Friends, parents, kindred, first it will... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...height of charily. Godlovesfrouiwholetoparts: but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. V mov'xl, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads j Friend, parents, neighbour,... | |
 | 1810 - 500 pages
...virtuous mind.to wake, As the small pebble stirs tin peaceful lake, The centre mov'd- a circle straight succeeds; Another still- and* still another spreads; Friend- parent, neighbour, first it will fmbrac* ; His country next- and next all human race. Pope. i THE CONCLUDING ESSAY. ALTHOUGH we have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...charity. 360 God lores 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 stir!- the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...John iv. 20. VOL. XI, L Poet Poet ends his Essay, as the just and necessary conclusion of his work: 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... | |
 | Hannah More - Christian life - 1811 - 244 pages
...divine. Gives thee to make thy neighbour's blessing thine. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to make As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The...strait succeeds, Another still, and still another sprt uds ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race.... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...HEIGHT OF CHAB1TY. 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...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre niov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads^ <^c. The last part of... | |
 | Charities - 1811 - 424 pages
...mind ; they are the antidotes to evil : and in short, to use the language of 'the poet, they serve 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, neighhour, first it will... | |
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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,... 
