 | Robert Dodsley - English poetry - 1755 - 360 pages
...fhall more perfect grow, And new perfcftions, new delights beftow. Oh ! would mankind but make thefe truths their guide, And force the helm from prejudice...fix'd, that God's our friend, Virtue our good, and happincfs our end, How foon muft reafon o'er the world prevail, And error, fraud, and fuperftition... | |
 | Soame Jenyns - Good and evil - 1770 - 468 pages
...fhall more perfect grow, And new perfections, new delights beftow. Oh ! would mankind but make thefe truths their guide, And force the helm from prejudice...reafon o'er the world prevail, And error, fraud, and luperftition fail ! None wou'd hereafter then with groundlefs fear, Defcribe th' Almighty cruel and... | |
 | Collection - 1770 - 370 pages
...mall more perfeft grow, And new perfeftions, new delights beftow. Oh ! would mankind but make thefe truths their guide, And force the helm from prejudice and pride, Were Were once thefe maxims fix'd, that God's our friend, Virtue our good, and happinefs our end, How foon... | |
 | English poetry - 1774 - 428 pages
...(hall more pedWt And new perfections, new delights bellow. Oh ! would mankind but make thefe trittai their guide, And force the helm from prejudice and pride; Were once thefe maxims nx'd, that God'* our friend, Virtue our good, and happineft our mi. How foon mud reafon o'er the world... | |
 | 1782 - 388 pages
...mail more perfect grow, And new perfections, new delights beflow. Oh ! would mankind but make thefe truths their guide, And force the helm from prejudice...thefe maxims fix'd, that God's our friend. Virtue pur good, and happinefs our end, How foon muft reafon o'er the world prevail, And error, fraud, and... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1789 - 376 pages
...shall more perfect grow, And new perfeftions, new delights bestow. _ Oh! would mankind, but make these truths their guide. And force the helm from prejudice and pride, Were once these maxims fix'd, that God's our fsiend, Virtue our gopd, and happiness qur end, How soon must reason... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1791 - 366 pages
...reared by miftaken zeal, to glorify the Deity, by the dire facrifice of all his deareft bleffings ?" Oh ! would mankind but make great truths their guide,...happinefs our end ; How foon muft reafon o'er the world pievaili And error, fraud, and fuperftition fail ! None would hereafter, then, lyifli groundlefs ftar,... | |
 | Soame Jenyns, Charles Nalson Cole - English literature - 1793 - 612 pages
...fliall more perfect grow, And new perfections, new delights beftow. Oh ! would mankind but make thefe truths their guide, And force the helm from prejudice...reafon o'er the world prevail, And error, fraud, and fuperflition fail ! None wou'd hereafter then with groundlefs fear, Defcribe th' Almighty cruel and... | |
 | James Lackington - Booksellers and bookselling - 1794 - 346 pages
...to glorify the Diety, by the dire facrifice of all his dearcft bleuiugs ?" Oli ! would mankind bnt make great truths their guide, And force the helm...and pride ; Were once thefe maxims fix'd, that God's GUI' frieiul, Virtue our good, and happiuefs our end ; How footi muft reafon o'er the world prevail,... | |
 | English literature - 1799 - 334 pages
...grow, And new perfections, new delights beftow. Oh ! would mankind but make thefe truths their guide, i And force the helm from prejudice and pride, Were...good, and happinefs our end^ How foon muft reafon o'er_the world prevail, And error, fraud, and fuperftitidn fail \ N'ehe would hereafter then with groundlefs... | |
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Oh ! would mankind but make these truths their guide, And force the helm from prejudice and pride; Were once these maxims fix'd, that God's our friend, Virtue our good, and happiness our end, How soon must reason o'er the world prevail, And error, fraud,... 
