 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 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... | |
 | Niccolò Forteguerri - Italian poetry - 1822 - 280 pages
...man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epit6meV' Dryden, Abs. and Achit. " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence." Pope, Essay on Man. " O ! thou, whatever title please thine ear, Dean, Draper, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver."... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...Life's a short summer — man a flow'r; He dies — Alas! — how soon he dies! 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 - 1822 - 370 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... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...follow the same instructions. SELECT SENTENCES AND PARAGRAPHS. LESSON III. Tlie 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. An approving... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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. POPE. CHAP. XVI. ON VIRTUE. KNOW thou this truth, enough for man to know, " Virtue alone is Happiness... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 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; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. On earth nought... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 116 pages
...common sens*-.' 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 coiripetencl;. But health consists \vith temperance alone; And peace, Oh, -virtue! peace is all thy... | |
 | Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 406 pages
...Fortuna non mutât genus." Нов. Fortune cannot change your blood, Although you strut as if it could. " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, " Lie in three words, health, peace, and 93 Crecerá el membrillo y mudará el pelillo. — " The quince-tree spreads, and short hair changes."... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1823 - 716 pages
...tha! honour me, 1 will honour; and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed. Reason's ivhole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. Having thus begun to throw off the restraint of reason, he was soon hurried into deplorable excesses.... | |
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Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. 
