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 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace... An essay on man. Cornish ed - Seite 78von Alexander Pope - 1798Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, '1! And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and...Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. 80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh, virtue! peace is all thy own. The good... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1814 - 308 Seiten
...common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...competence ; But health consists with temperance alone j And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. On earth nought precious is obtain'd, But what is painful... | |
| Abner Alden - 1814 - 222 Seiten
...happiness was meant, God in externals coul J not place content. LESSON V, CONTINUED. KNOW, all the goftd that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to...mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, • Sk L'e in three words, health, peace and competence ; S&- But health consists with temperance alone... | |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge - 1814 - 608 Seiten
...So that I consider the poet, as not going the whole length of the foundation of happiness, when he " Reason's whole pleasure ; all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence."* For thougli without these, little pleasure can be enjoyed J yet, even with these, little can be enjoyed,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1814 - 190 Seiten
...human nature. Them that honour me, I will honour; and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. Having thus begun to throw off the restraints of reason, he was soon hurried into deplorable excesses.... | |
| Louis-Pierre Siret - 1815 - 198 Seiten
...such are happier , sHfcks all common sense. — Know , all the good that individuals find , Or good and nature meant to mere mankind , Reason's whole...Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. The progress of life (a). ALL the world's a stage , . And all the men and women merely players » They... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 Seiten
...pleafure, all the joys of fenfe, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence : But health confifls with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. Placid Emotion. Who can forbear to fmile with nature ? Can The ftormy paffions in the bofom toll, While... | |
| Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 Seiten
...successive rise : So generations in their course decay ; So flourish these, when those have past away. Reason's whole pleasure, all the- joys of sense, Lie...alone, And Peace, O Virtue ! Peace is all thy own. 'Content is competence; nay more, 'tis wealth. Labour is the offspring of Want, and the mother of Health... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 Seiten
...with laughter the vain toil surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the goed that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to...Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. SWEETNESS. AN ODE. BY MR. ROBERTSON. OF damask cheeks and radiant eyes, Let other poets tell ; Within... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1817 - 216 Seiten
...common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, , Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence ; Bui health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy owa. On earth... | |
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