| Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...please. Equal is comment sense, and common ease. — Order is heaven's first law; and this confcsr, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More...hence. That such are happier, shocks all common sense. — Knuw, all the good that individuals find, Or God of nature meant to mere mankind : Reason's whole... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...first author of the Law of Heaven. A proposition abominable in most senses ; absurd in all. Warburton. More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heaven to Mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their Happiness : But mutual wants this... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...pain. ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, £0 More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, ll'all are equal in their happiness ; .! mutual wants this... | |
| Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...first author of the Law of Heaven. A proposition abominable in most senses ; absurd in all. Wurburton. More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heaven to Mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their Happiness : But mutual wants this... | |
| Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...pain. ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this contest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 50 More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness ; But mutual wants this... | |
| Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...the world can neither give nor take away. POETRY. ORDER is Heaven's first law : and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More...hence, That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...Shall find the pleasure pays not half the pain. Order is Heaven's first law ; and, this confess'd, Some are and must be greater than the rest, More rich,...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness : But mutual wants this... | |
| 1825 - 556 pages
...interest; it teaches him, that " the powers that be are ordained of God ;" and that " Order is heaven's first law, and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest ; More rich, more wise; hut who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. And thus by inculcating contentment... | |
| Esq. Hugh Campbell - Christian poetry, English - 1825 - 184 pages
...her sons, and their virtues, holds in the scale of nations, and recollecting that " Order is Heaven's first law — and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest !" They should not cavil for trifles taken from a .few for the good of the whole; nor by an unjustifiable... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...those virtuous attainments, which the world can neither give nor take away. ^ POETRY. Order is Heav'n's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be,...hence, That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole... | |
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