 | Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...away. 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. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole... | |
 | David Holt - Educational literature - 1839 - 304 pages
...man." 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. Pope. MEN of the world this doctrine ill digest; They smile at piety, yet boast aloud Good will to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1840 - 262 pages
...POETRY. Order is Heav'n'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. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...pain. Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, e forth Unbid ; tbeir happiness : But mutual wants this happiness increase ; All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's... | |
 | Lindley MURRAY - 1841 - 144 pages
...VEaSE. Order is Heav'n'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. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 212 pages
...UTOPIA." 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. The Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, a recent and very impartial traveller in the United States, also... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...pain. Order is Heaven's first law; and this contest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, `0 All Nature's difference keeps all Nature's peace. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1847 - 252 pages
...POETRT. Older is Heav'n'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. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...law ; and this confess'd, Some are, and must he, greater than the rest, 59 More rich, more wise ; hut who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks...happiness : But mutual wants this happiness increase ; All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss... | |
 | Caleb Farnum (Jr.) - English language - 1848 - 132 pages
...prize. Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confessed, Some are, and must be, greate.r than the rest, More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence, That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius... | |
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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. 
