 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...the least disappointment in our pursuit. Bishop Porteat. Order is nature's law ; and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More...rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such arc happier, shocks all common sense. POPE. What can add to the happiness of the man who is in health,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...pain. Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confess'd 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 766 pages
...the world can neither give nor take away. POETRY. OBDER is Heaven's first law : and this confess'd, Some are, and must be. greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence, That suclrare happier, shocks all common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence... | |
 | 1829 - 366 pages
...determinations of the Divinity. In Pope's " Essay on Man," however, we read, — Order is Heav'n's first law, and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. That any thing should subsist without order, is impossible. The world (the system of which is so beautifully... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 718 pages
...Heaven's first law : and this confess'd, Some are, and must be. greater than the rest, More rich, rnqre wise ; but who infers from 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pages
...those virtuous attainments, which the world can neither give nor take away. VERSE. 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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...share; and who would more obtain, Shall find, the pleasure pays not half the pain. 7 ORDER is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be,...rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence Thai such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If all are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Order ia Heaven's first law ; and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, SO / Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If ill are equal in their happiness : But mutual winU this... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...thus define it, say they more or less Than this, — that hdppiness is hctppiness. Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be greater than the rest ; More r\ch, more zolse ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, — shocks all common sense. But... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...share, and who would more obtain, Shall find the pleasure pays not half the pain. ORDER is Heaven's- first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be,...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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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. 
