 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 486 pages
...by a due observation of this order, than by any of those sublira^ refinements that pervert $. Self. 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 another spreads : Friend, parent,... | |
 | John Corry - 1809 - 236 pages
...river, or a mountain, will no longer be considered as a pretext for selfish distinctions among men. " 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 another spreads ; Friends, parents,... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 480 pages
...effectually by a due observation of this order, than by any of those sublime refinements that pervert it 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 another spreads: Friend, parent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 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... | |
 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 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 the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre niov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads^ <^c. The... | |
 | 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 the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...John iv. 20. VOL. XI, L Poet Poet ends his Essay, as the just and necessary conclusion of his work: 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 another spreads ; Friend, parent,... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 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,... | |
 | 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 the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 224 pages
...Benevolence. % God loves from whole to parts but human soul Must vise 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 da circle straight succeeds Another still and still another spreads Friend parent neighbour... | |
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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 spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; His country next; and... 
