 | 1843 - 326 lehte
...This process may be illustrated by the image under which the poet pictures the progress of self-love. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake ; As...succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads ; Friends — parents — neighbor — first it will embrace, His country next — and next, all human... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 lehte
...benevolence ; Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree. And height of bliss, but height of charity. 360 God loves from whole to parts : but human soul Must...next, and next all human race : Wide and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind, Take every creature in, of every kind ; 370 Earth smiles around, with... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 lehte
...Favours of every kind are doubled when they are speedily conferred. No. 117.] BENEVOLENCE. [FRIDAY. God loves from whole to parts: but human soul Must...small pebble stirs the peaceful lake : The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbours,... | |
 | Gregory G. Colomb - 1992 - 260 lehte
...is a human analogue to Newtonian mechanics, the social order an image of the order of the heavens: God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbor,... | |
 | Stephen D. Cox - 1992 - 336 lehte
...Eternal is saying some of the things that Alexander Pope says in An Essay on Man, in which he argues that "God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul / Must rise from Individual to the Whole" (Pope [1733] 1965, IV. 361-62). Blake, too, sometimes sees divine love as a universalized reflection... | |
 | J. C. Street - 1996 - 650 lehte
...this is signified by eating of the tree of life. — Rev. ii. UNSELFISH LOVE. " True Beneficent Love serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble...still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide the... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 lehte
...Principles, Feelings, Yearnings, arc as familiar as flowers in the gardens or stars in the firmament. " Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake," As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake." Man's selfish instincts demonstrate his origin. They lie at the foundation of his indestructible superstructure,... | |
 | Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 lehte
...from appetite to appetite to hold together by a miraculous accident the whole social and cosmic order. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 lehte
...benevolence receives its finest eighteenth-century expression in Pope's famous lines from An Essay on Man: God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour,... | |
 | Jacques Cory - 2001 - 288 lehte
...unethical companies that might wrong them, even if those companies have excellent prospects. 14 CONCLUS1ON "God loves from whole to parts; but human soul Must...stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbour, first will it... | |
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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... 
