 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...more obtain, Shall find the pleasure pays not half the pain. ORDER is Heaven's- first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,...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 - 1833 - 240 pages
...which the world can neither give nor take away. POETRY. Order is Heaven'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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1833 - 222 pages
...neither give nor take away. POETRY. Order Is Heav'n's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and im'st be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise ;...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 - 1833 - 420 pages
...Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be greater than the rest ; MorerlcA, more wise ; but who infers from hence, That such are happier, — shocks all common sense. But sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed : What th&n ? — is the reward of virtue bread ? 4.... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1838 - 604 pages
...learn one lesson at least from Pope's Essay on Man, ' Order is heaven's first law, and thus confessed. Some are, and must be greater than the rest, More rich, more wise.' I make, perhaps, too little use of circumlocutions and softening phrases, and am too apt to call things... | |
 | Christian life - 1838 - 594 pages
...learn one lesson at least from Pope's Essay on Man, ' Order is heaven's first law, and thus confessed. Some are, and must be greater than the rest, More rich, more wise.' I make, perhaps, too little use of circumlocutions and softening phrases, and am too apt to call things... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 266 pages
...which the world can neither give nor take away. POETRY, Onjer 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 austeritie* our wills restrain; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | John Harrison - Chronometers - 1835 - 338 pages
...singularly illustrative of the poet's axiom, that — Some are, and must be greater than the rest; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense : —never was it more strikingly set off than by this Monarch ; whose favourite Mistress (if she might... | |
 | President of a college - Composition (Language arts) - 1836 - 156 pages
...at the end of certain lines. Q,. Can you exemplify this 1 A. " Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,...hence, That such are happier, shocks all common sense." Q,. What do you call two successive lines rhyming together? A. A couplet; while three, under similar;... | |
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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. 
