 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 Seiten
...Heav'n's first law; and, this confest, 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. Heav'n to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness; But mutual wants this... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 Seiten
...heav'n'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, Heav'n to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness : But mutual wants this... | |
 | 1801 - 446 Seiten
...and unquestionably, the answer will be that nothing can impart to competence the least advantage— " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, " Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. An hundred dishes after the novelty has passed, cannot gratify the man who wishes to pamper his appetite,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 Seiten
...Heav'n's first law ; and, this confest, 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. s 2 • Heav'n to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness : But mutual wants... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 Seiten
...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. Heav'n to mankind impartial we confess , If all are equal in their Happiness : But mutual wants this... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 Seiten
...first law . and this contest, Some are, and must he, greater tlmn the rest ; More rich, more wise : hut 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 : Bat mutual wants this... | |
 | 1806 - 408 Seiten
...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. Heaven to Mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their Happiness: But mutual wants this... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 Seiten
...first law; and this confest. Some are, and must be, greater than the rest; More rich, more wise: hut 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 Seiten
...first law; and, this confest, Some are and must he greater than the rest, 50 Wore rich, more wise: hut who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Ileav'n to mankind impartial we confess, If all arc equal in their happiness: But mutual wants this... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1808 - 178 Seiten
...those virtuous attainments which the world can neither give nor take away. POETRY. More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence, That such are happier,...wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant iron! harm. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and... | |
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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. 
