 | Philip Allott - Law - 2002 - 448 pages
...virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads,...embrace, His country next, and next all human race... Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Essay on Man, Ep. 4, lines 361-72. That thy way may be known upon earth,... | |
 | Martha Nussbaum - Political Science - 2002 - 172 pages
...virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs dse peaceful lake; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds. Another still, and still another spreads,...embrace, His country next, and next all human race, /---/ Pope's interpretation of how we learn to reach beyond the innermost circles is persuasive and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Reference - 2004 - 320 pages
...virtuous Mind to wake, As the small Pebble stirs the peaceful Lake; The Centre mov'd, a Circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads,...next, and next all human Race; Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the Mind Take every Creature in of every Kind. It's common for Men to give pretended... | |
 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - Law - 2005 - 1436 pages
...affections necessarily pointed to society. He is capable of social intercourse long The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still...and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind; Earth smiles around, with boundless... | |
 | Gregory Claeys - Co-operative societies - 2005 - 464 pages
...moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another still - and still another spreads; Friend, Parent, Kindred, first it will embrace. His country next, and next all human race. Wide, and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind, Takes every creature in, of every kind: Earth smiles around, with boundless... | |
 | James Fieser - Philosophy - 2005 - 454 pages
...vigour, diffuses its cheering, beneficent, and healing influence through the whole family of mankind. "Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race." We will now notice two or three principal objections which have been frequently urged against the doctrine... | |
 | John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 505 pages
...moved, a circle straight succeeds, Another stili, and still another spreads; Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace, His country next, and next all human race. I am certain, however, that the course that I pursue will neither lead me to fame, fortune, power,... | |
 | Suzanne Keen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 274 pages
...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...first it will embrace, His country next; and next the human race, Wide and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind Take ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind;... | |
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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 mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still... 
