 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Herodotus - 1812 - 478 pages
...satisfied with a lamb or a sheep : they eat but sparingly of meat, but are fond of the after dishes, which 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,... | |
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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... 
