 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...be gained only by VIRTUE, namely, by temperance, innocence, and industry : Reason's whole pleasures, 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 first line,... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Anglican Communion - 1811 - 454 pages
...be gained only by VIRTUE, namely, by temperance, innocence, and industry : Reason's whole pleasures, 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 first line,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...a short summer—man a flow'rj He dies—Alas !—how soon he dies! \ . r The source of happiness. 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. Placid emotion.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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 ; SI And peace, oh Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1812 - 224 pages
...common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, healih, peace, and competence : But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...short summer — man a flow'r ; He dies — alus ! — how soon he dies ! The souree of Happiness. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peaee, and eompetenee j But health eonsists with temperanee alone ; Aud peaee, O virtue ! peaee is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1814 - 308 pages
...common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence ; But health consists with temperance alone j And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. On earth... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1814 - 190 pages
...human nature. Them that honour me, I will honour; and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. Having thus begun to throw off the restraints of reason, he was soon hurried into deplorable excesses.... | |
 | Hugh Henry Brackenridge - Law - 1814 - 608 pages
...So that I consider the poet, as not going the whole length of the foundation of happiness, when he " Reason's whole pleasure ; all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence."* For thougli without these, little pleasure can be enjoyed J yet, even with these, little can be enjoyed,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 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. 80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh, virtue! peace is all thy own. The good... | |
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. 
