 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 ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace...  An essay on man. Cornish ed - Page 78by Alexander Pope - 1798Full view - About this book
 | 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...alone, And peace. O Virtue ! peace is all thy own. An approving mind'. What stronger breast-plate than a heart untainted ? Thrice is he arm'd that hath... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...hands or eyes; And when in act they cease, in prospect rise. POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. II. L. 123. 13 POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 79. 14 The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight.... | |
 | James Andrew Corcoran, Patrick John Ryan, Edmond Francis Prendergast - Periodicals - 1888 - 800 pages
...a state of things fraught with never-ending disputes, quarrels and tumults, being convinced that " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace and competence." Nature's beneficent gift of land, the permanent spring of life-materials for all the countless generations... | |
 | Medicine - 1924 - 792 pages
...upon the health of individuals. Happiness is within the grasp of mankind, if they would but seize it. "Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words — health, peace, competence." These be our New Year's greeting. War and Health. — More than twentytwo thousand plans... | |
 | Great Britain. Colonial Office - Great Britain - 1925 - 1078 pages
...Saigon Taiping (£MS) Zamboan^H Peking Semarang Berambam Tavoy (Philippine Islands) "Reason's it hole pleasure, all the joys of sense. Lie in three words — Health, Peace and Competence." —POPE MAKE IT A RULE OF YOUR MORNING TOILET ? day right with ENO INWARD CLEANLINESS is even more... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - Electronic journals - 1926 - 622 pages
...surveys, And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Know all the good which individuals find, Or God or nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure,...Lie in three words, Health, peace, and competence. From this point of view, it is not difficult to understand how the eighteenth century produced nothing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 pages
...skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, 75 And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. 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. The good or... | |
 | American literature - 1884 - 984 pages
...general laws,' And makes what happiness we justly call Subsist not in the good of one, but all." " Health consists with temperance alone, And peace, O virtue, peace is all thine own." " Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies."... | |
 | Kentucky State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 188 pages
...enjoy. More than a competency is not necessary for happiness, and is but seldom consistent with it. " ' Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...in three words — health, peace and competence.' " And the book of books tells us that it is almost impossible for a very rich man to reach, or, if... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, 75 And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. III. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and...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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