 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
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 712 pages
...the mazy rounds his followers trod , And quitting sense call imitating god. 66) Epist. II. Vs. 53. Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain; bung unter ЗЯепГфеп, »om Urfprunge ber Aûnfîe unb ЯЩеп< [фареп. 3n letzten unb... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...the past, and must the times to come i II. Two principles in human nature reign ; /•»> Self-lazcjo urge, and reason to restrain : / \ £»•' Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, 5JJ. Each works its end, to move or govern all *• And to their proper operation still; Ascribe all... | |
 | 1861 - 462 pages
...and sin is just self-indulgence, and the foil of temptation and the death of sin is self-denial. uTwo principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain," and we are to choose, every day of our lives, which we will serve — self or reason. Neither is the... | |
 | John Frost - 1845 - 458 pages
...ours, from our i/casl ; He prays but faintly, and would be denied ; We pray with heart and soul. 12. 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. 13. See the sole bliss Heaven could on all bestow, Which... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 144 pages
...him that relief. The set of new curtains did not correspond with the pair of old blinds. 8ECTION VI. 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. He has greatly blessed me ; yes, even me, who loaded with... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...; 50 Then see how little the remaining sum, Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come ! 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... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - 1848 - 224 pages
...And glow through heaven with intenser ray, As planets, suns, and systems shall decay. THE CONTRAST. 'Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain." — POPE. FROM the same source the acts of mortals spring, So nature teaches, and the minstrels sing:... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 496 pages
...Self-love is the mainspring of all human actions, honourable or dishonourable, laudable or despicable : " Two principles in human nature reign : Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain." The Supreme has wisely bristled all mortal enjoyments with obstacles, necessary to check, if not sufficient... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...arts ; 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,...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 ;... | |
 | 1889 - 670 pages
...the former of any two subjects referred to. Thus in Pope, that most correct of writers, we find : — Two principles in human nature reign — Self-love...urge, and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good, nor thai a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all : And, to their proper operation, still... | |
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