 | 1810 - 500 pages
...individual to the whole. Selt.love but serves the virtuous mind.to wake, As the small pebble stirs tin peaceful lake, The centre mov'd- a circle straight...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... | |
 | 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...still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighhour, first it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race. ' Wide and more wide,... | |
 | Hannah More - Christian life - 1811 - 276 pages
...virtuous mind to make As the small pebble stirs the peaceful Uke ; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds. Another still, and still another spreads...embrace. His country next, and next all human race. The Author hopes to be forgiven for these remarks : she has hazarded them tor the sake of her more... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 554 pages
...element." Ver. 43£ In his Essay on Man, the author introduces the same image, with equal propriety: " Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...element." Ver. 436. In his Essay on Man, the author introduces the same image, with equal propriety : " Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; * Mr. Knox, vol. IIL p. 115, writes, anunoffeinliag iiirlitiih/al ; whereas th4 common word muffcnding,... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...moral * 1 John iv. 20. Poet ends his Essay, as the just and necessary conclusion pf his work: Self-loae but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful Jake; The ixiitre movVi, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend,... | |
 | 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 centre mov-d, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another sprt uds ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...satisfied with a lamb or a sheep : they eat but sparingly of meat, but are fond of the after dishes, which Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...embrace, His country next, and next all human race. Pope's Essayt. which are separately introduced. From hence the Persians take occasion to say, that... | |
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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 the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still... 
