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" ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. "
Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English Literature - Page 54
by William Bowman Piper - 1997 - 200 pages
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The minstrel, a collection of moral and religious poems

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...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

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...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

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...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

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...
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Conversations on English Grammar: Explaining the Principles and Rules of the ...

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...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

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...
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The Christian guardian (and Church of England magazine).

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...
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The Fruits of Faith. Or, Musing Sinner. With Elegies and Other Moral Poems

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...
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English Exercises: Adapted to Murray's English Grammar, Consisting of ...

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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