 | John Minter Morgan - Socialism - 1826 - 294 pages
...delusive theories of education and social improvement. — Our great moral poet has justly observed, " ' Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...embrace ; His country next, and next all human race :' " The expansive benevolence imbibed under our system regards every object, present or remote, that... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 pages
...natural process, to their country and laws, their government and nation."* " Domestic love is sure the mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful...succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Child, Parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race."-f If,... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 582 pages
...natural process, to their country and laws, their government and nation."* " Domestic love is sure the mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful...succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Child, Parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race."-fIf,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Benevolence: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of Bliss but height of Charity. 360 God loves from Whole to Parts : but human soul Must...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, 365 Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | 1792 - 560 pages
...mov'da circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Friends, parents, neighbours first it will embrace, His country next, and next...Wide and more -wide th' o'erflowings of the mind Take evVy creature in , of ev'ry kind. Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty bless'd ; And heav'n beholds... | |
 | Gregory G. Colomb - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...is a human analogue to Newtonian mechanics, the social order an image of the order of the heavens: God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbor,... | |
 | J. C. Street - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 650 pages
...this is signified by eating of the tree of life. — Rev. ii. UNSELFISH LOVE. " True Beneficent Love serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble...still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide the... | |
 | Adam Potkay - Happiness - 2000 - 276 pages
...benevolence receives its finest eighteenth-century expression in Pope's famous lines from An Essay on Man: God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | Jacques Cory - Business & Economics - 2001 - 288 pages
...unethical companies that might wrong them, even if those companies have excellent prospects. 14 CONCLUS1ON "God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must...stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first will it... | |
 | James Noggle - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 288 pages
...presents a sublime vision of universal benevolence that connects the earthbound individual to Heaven: God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbor,... | |
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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 moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another... 
