 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...  Quarterly Review - Page 2991821Full view - About this book
 | Christopher Anderson - 1826 - 484 pages
...lake ; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Child, Parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race."-f If, therefore, such enlarged philanthropy is ever to prevail, assuredly the precise point... | |
 | 1827 - 290 pages
...of benevolence : Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of bliss but height of charity. 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... | |
 | 1843 - 326 pages
...straight succeeds ; Another still, and still another spreads ; Friends — parents — neighbor — first it will embrace, His country next — and next, all human race. This description — which, in the case of self-love, is not more than half true — represents very... | |
 | Ethics - 1828 - 234 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 pages
...affections are diffused ; and in this order, by the constitution of our being, they weaken as they spread. ' 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 ; '... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...the same; jf'Aat virtue only makes our bliss below, Aad all our knowledge is—ourse\\es to Va»v. God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to Uie whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, Ys the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...affections are diffused ; and in this order, by the constitution of our being, they weaken as they spread. ' 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 ; '... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 804 pages
...diffused ; and in this order, by the constitution of our being, they weaken as they spread. ' Goil 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 ; '... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1829 - 718 pages
...nearest these, when others most remote; And all, ere long, shall be remote, but these. . Benevolence. God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to the wholeSelf-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake :... | |
 | 1829 - 838 pages
...flow : — " The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race." The loss therefdre of a particular friend, though it be a trial of «ur virtue, will never be a trial... | |
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