 | Addison (pseud.) - 1794 - 564 pages
...circle ftrait fucceeds, Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace; His country next, and next all human...Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind; Earth fmiles around, with boundlefs bounty bleft, And Heav'n beholds... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 574 pages
...circle ftraight fuccecds, Another ftill, and (till another fprcads ; ïriend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all...Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take cv'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind; Earth fmilcs around, with boundlefs bounty bkft, And heaven beholds... | |
 | 1796 - 246 pages
...circle ftrait fucceeds, Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, firfl. it will embrace ; His country next; and next all human...Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind; Earth fmiles around, with boundlefs bounty bleft. And Heav'n beholds... | |
 | Mr. Addison - 1797 - 712 pages
...circle ftrait fucceeds, Another ftill, and ftill another fpreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, firft it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human...Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature, and in ev'ry kind ; Earth fmiles around, with boundlefs bounty blefs'd, And Heav'n... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...of benevolence : Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must...wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake, The center rnov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; =.' ' ' • —... | |
 | John Monck Mason - 1798 - 494 pages
...subject, in his Essay on ManGod loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads: Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | John Monck Mason - 1798 - 496 pages
...subject, in his Essay on Man—- God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must rise from individuals to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads: Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...of the poet, •*' As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake i " The centre mov'da circle strait succeeds, " Another still, and still another spreads...will embrace, " His country next, and next all human raoe." Whether Mr. Pope's philosophy, which makes self-love the centre of universal philanthropy be... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'da circle strait succeeds , Another, still , and still another spreads...o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in , of ev'ry kind ; Earth smiles around , with boundless bounty blest, AndHeav'n beholds it's image in his... | |
 | James Wilson - 1804 - 494 pages
...delight in the agreeable conception of the improvement and happiness of mankind. The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still...Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind ; Earth smiles around, with boundless bounty blest, Andheav'n beholds... | |
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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 moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another... 
