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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 mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still... "
The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ... - Page 265
by Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 300 pages
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THE KEY TO THE EXERCISES FOR THE ILLUSTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE RULES ...

W. JILLARD HORT - 1822 - 156 pages
...and who is he that hath not offended with the tongue ? God loves from whole to parts, but human loul Must rise from individual to the whole; Self-love...the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake. The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads. Friend, parent, neighbour,...
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Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 2

Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 546 pages
...affection*; it is not any self-love, reflecting on the enjoyments that are thus to be obtained. Self-lore 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 spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour,...
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Political Fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and Other Ancient ...

Ethics - 1822 - 150 pages
...that it is most probably tbe source from whence they were derived. The lines are these: " 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 spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour...
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Political Fragments of Archytas, Charondas, Zaleucus, and Other Ancient ...

Ethics - 1822 - 148 pages
...it is most probably the source from whence they were derived. The lines are these: " Self love bnt 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 spreads, Friend, parent, neighbour...
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms: A Dictionary of Discriminated ...

Merriam-Webster, Inc - Antonyms - 1984 - 950 pages
...(self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, as the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake . . . friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace; his country next; and next all human race— Pope) Amour propre comes closer to self-esteem, for it stresses pride, usually pardonable pride, in...
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Designs on Truth: The Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic

Gregory G. Colomb - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 260 pages
...teaches us to know wholes, the mock-epic understands that, to rephrase the Essay on Man, "God [knows] from Whole to Parts: but human soul / Must rise from Individual to the Whole." The mock-epic also knows that its proper study is man, and so it diagnoses those motive forces of corruption...
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Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's Thought

Stephen D. Cox - Logic in literature - 1992 - 336 pages
...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...
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Arabula: The Divine Guest

Andrew J Davis - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 412 pages
...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,...
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The Hidden Way Across the Threshold

J. C. Street - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 650 pages
...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 stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbor,...
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Der Freiheitsbegriff bei Rousseau: Rousseaus praktisches System der Freiheit ...

Elke Oberparleiter-Lorke - Liberty - 1997 - 324 pages
...des Menschen liegt nicht im Erfassen der (göttlichen) Ordnung aller Dinge, sondern im Mitmenschen: „God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole."69 Wenn es aber bei Rousseau heißt, daß wir „erst eigentlich Menschen zu werden" beginnen,...
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