 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 268 pages
...which the world can neither give nor take away. POETRY. Order is Heav'n's first law; and this contest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...more or less Than this,—that happiness is happiness. Order is heaven's first law ; and this contest, Some are, and must be greater than the rest; More...more wise ; but who infers from hence That such are happier,—shocks all common sense. But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed: What then ?—is... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...the least disappointment in our pursuit. Bishop Porteat. Order is nature's law ; and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More...rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such arc happier, shocks all common sense. POPE. What can add to the happiness of the man who is in health,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...pain. Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confess'd Some are, and must be greater than the rest, 50 More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heaven to mankind impartial .we confess, If all are equal in their happiness : But mutual wants this... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 766 pages
...the world can neither give nor take away. POETRY. OBDER is Heaven's first law : and this confess'd, Some are, and must be. greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence, That suclrare happier, shocks all common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 718 pages
...Heaven's first law : and this confess'd, Some are, and must be. greater than the rest, More rich, rnqre 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 128 pages
...attainments, which the world can neither give nor take away. VERSE. Order is Heav'n's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,...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... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...more obtain, Shall find, the pleasure pays not half the pain. 7 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 Thai such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If all are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Order ia Heaven's first law ; and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, SO / Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If ill are equal in their happiness : But mutual winU this... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be greater than the rest ; More r\ch, more zolse ; but who infers from hence That such are happier, — shocks all common sense. But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed ; What iliin ? — is the reward of virtue brtad t... | |
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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. 
