 | 1838 - 544 pages
...whom, however, do not wear it, and to the members of the legal profession, who cannot dispense with it. 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,... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pages
...whom, however, do not wear it, and to the members of the legal profession, who cannot dispense with it. 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,... | |
 | Hannah More - 1838 - 292 pages
...* " Self-love thus pushed to social, to divine, Gives thee to make thy neighbour's blessing thine. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent,... | |
 | 472 pages
...selfishness and egotism, and given an irresistible impulse to all gentle and kindly emotions ? This 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. Triend, parent,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 pages
...Charity. 360 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 strait succeeds, 365 Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent,... | |
 | Gregory G. Colomb - 1992 - 260 pages
...the heavens: 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 strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent,... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 pages
...resurrected and consecrated to higher uses, these Ideas, Truths, Principles, Feelings, Yearnings, arc as familiar as flowers in the gardens or stars in...poor, but respectable parents " — surnamed, in the re-. cords of the oldest and only true Bible, " Minerals," "Vegetables," " Animals," and their "Elements."... | |
 | Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 pages
...from appetite to appetite to hold together by a miraculous accident the whole social and cosmic order. 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,... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 pages
...Essay on Man: 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 strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent,... | |
 | Jacques Cory - 2001 - 288 pages
...14 CONCLUS1ON "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 strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent,... | |
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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... 
