 Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good: to their improper, ill.  Everybody's Writing-desk Book - Page 69by Charles Nisbet, Don Lemon - 1892 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...created arts; Then see how little the remaining sum, Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come ! t Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 pages
...created arts: Then see how little the remaining sum, Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come! 3 Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love to...restrain; Nor this a good; nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good; to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 430 pages
...Rhetoric, Poetry, &c. which administer to luxury, deceit, ambition, effeminacy, &c. Warburton. II. Two Principles in human nature reign ; Self-love,...restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call ; 55 Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum, Which served the past, and must the times to coiue ! 2. Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to...restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good —... | |
 | Charles M. Ingersoll - 1825 - 298 pages
...safer than our own : Of ages past inquire, What the most formidable fate ; " To have our own desire." Two Principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to...restrain : Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...; 50 Then see how little the remaining sum, Which served the past, and must the times to come ! II. Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to...restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...see how little the remaining sum, Whieh serv'd the past, and must the times to eome ! Two prineiples One year is past ; a different seene ! No further...mention of the Dean, Who now, alas ! no more is miss eall, Eaeh works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still Aseribe all good,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 184 pages
...him, candour and uprightness. The new set of curtains did not correspond to tTtf old pair of blinds. Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain : Nor that a good, nor this a bad we call ; Each werks its end, to move or govern all. Temperance, and exercise,... | |
 | Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1827 - 424 pages
...her dominion over the whole mass of mankind, but over the nature of each individual. Pope has said, " Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and Reason to restrain." These apparently separate elements are shewn to be one and the same. Yet (it is objected) some persons... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 268 pages
...uprightness. The tutor commpnds him for being more studious than any other (8 n 7) pupils of the school. Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain : Nor that (8 n 2) a good, nor this (8 n 2) a bad we call; Each works its end, to move or govern all. He... | |
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