 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 218 pages
...should stand thus : "All men are equal — IN UTOPIA." Order is heaven's first law ; and this contest, Some are and must be greater than the rest, More rich,...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. The Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, a recent and very impartial traveller in the United States, also... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - Constitutional law - 1842 - 212 pages
...the proposition, amended and correctly stated, should stand thus : "All men are equal — IN UTOPIA." Order is heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some...greater than the rest, More rich, more wise ; but who inters from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. The Hon. Charles Augustus Murray,... | |
 | Iran - 1842 - 144 pages
...hath he made them his delegates ? The poet says, " Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are, and must be greater than the rest; More rich, more wise." To this end kings reign, that order may be preserved in a state. And this order consists in observing... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...obtain, Shall find, the pleasure pays not half the pain. Order is Heaven's first law; and this contest, X5 ` Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, If all are equal in their happiness: But mutual wants this... | |
 | James Richardson - Africa, North - 1970 - 506 pages
...and mark well the truth of Pope's fine lines, — " Order is heaven's first law, and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, —...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense." Our people observed to me, " This is a country of the Sultan, so the women fear nothing." But the environs... | |
 | 1842 - 60 pages
...we denominate Genius. This theory is not only consistent with reason, but it is morally efficient. " Order is Heaven's first law, and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest." It is a principle which philosophers have discovered in the material universe, the prevalence of which... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...wisdom, wealth, in power over other people : ORDER is Heav'n's first law; and this confest, 1v, 49 Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Power and wealth do not necessarily keep company with happiness. On the contrary, Reason's whole pleasure,... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1979 - 188 pages
...against charity schools to be no more satirical than Pope's lines in An Essay on Man: ORDER is Heav'n's first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be...hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Heav'n to Mankind impartial we confess. If all are equal in their Happiness: But mutual wants this... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - Philosophy - 1982 - 292 pages
...political conservatism is at times infuriating — Order is Heav'n's first law; and this confess'd, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise . . . Nevertheless, in a famous passage which records the ambiguity of Man's position at the mid-point... | |
 | John Caldwell Guilds - Historical fiction, American - 1988 - 294 pages
...same time, leadership was a stabilizing as well as a revolutionary force, for Pope was also right: Order is heaven's first law, and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. Consequently, the whig mouvement (a term Simms borrowed from the French), led as it was by aristocrats,... | |
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ORDER is Heaven's first law ; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 
