| John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; 81 And peace, Oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...heaps thejrraise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or... | |
| 1801 - 446 pages
...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,... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...they raise. Know , all the good that individual* find , Or God and Nature meant to mer« mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys of Sense ,...in three words , Health , Peace , and Competence. POPS. CHAP. XVI. On Virtue. J\.KOW thou this truth (enough for man to know} a Virtue alone is happiness... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...heaps they raise. Know ail the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individual" find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence, SWEETNESS. AN ODE. BY Mil. ROBERTSON. Or damask cheeks and radiant eyes, Let other poets tell ; Within... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's wide pleasure, all the joys of sense. Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. SWEETNESS. AN ODE. BY MR. RO13ERTSON. O' damask cheeks and radiant eyes, Let other poets tell; Within... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere Mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, Health, I'eace, and Competence. But Health consists with Temperance alone, And Peace, oh Virtue ! Peace is... | |
| 1808 - 408 pages
...they raise. Know, ¡ill the °;o<id that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence : But health subsists with temperance alone; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...in three words,— health, peace, and competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or... | |
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