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Conversations on English Grammar: Explaining the Principles and Rules of the ... - Page 155
by Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 288 pages
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...blest. But fools, the good alone unhappy call, For ills or accidents that chance to. all. COMMENTARY. " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh Virtue ! peace is all thy own." Ver. 93. Oh Hind to truth, Sfc.] Our author having thus largely...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...heaps they raise. 11 Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...health consists with temperance alone; And peace, 0 virtue! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain; But these less taste them,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, the loudest drones, With snuffling, broken-winded...Sound filthier than from the gut, And makes a viler oh virtue ! Peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh Virtue ! peace is all thy own. COMMENTARY. Ver. 77. Know, all the good, fyc.] The Poet having thus...
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Five years' residence in the Canadas: including a tour through ..., Volume 1

Edward Allen Talbot - Canada - 1824 - 450 pages
...every tongue speaks the language of independence. If the maxim of our ethic poet be correct, that i Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, HEALTH, PEACE, and COMPETENCE, I do not wonder at beholding such an invariable picture of enjoyment in the looks of the Canadians...
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The minstrel, a collection of moral and religious poems

Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...common sense. — Knuw, all the good that individuals find, Or God of nature meant to mere mankind : Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. A HYMN, Composed in a morning walk near Congltton, 4 " These are thy glorious works parent of good...
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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
...heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace and competence, 80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three word?, health, peace and competence. 80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them, as they worse obtain. Say, in...
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The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant ...

Readers - 1824 - 348 pages
...they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or god and nature meant to mere mankind. Reasons whole pleasure, all the joys of sense Lie in three words — Health, -Peace, and Competence. \ Speech of Adam to Eve. NOW morn her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...alone ; And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these less taste them, as they worse obtain. Say, in...
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