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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... "
An essay on man. Cornish ed - Page 96
by Alexander Pope - 1798
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The works of ... Henry St. John, lord viscount Bolingbroke. With ..., Volume 1

Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 480 pages
...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...neighbour, first it will embrace, His country next, and nextall human race. So sings our friend Pope, my lord, and so I believe. So I shall prove too, if I...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...'.jut 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...Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; rlis country next ; and next all human race: Wide and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take...
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A Satirical View of London

John Corry - London (England) - 1809 - 236 pages
...mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friends, parents, kindred, first it will embrace ; His country next; and next, all human race : Wide, and more wide, the o'erflowings of the mind Takes ev'ry creature in, of ev'ry kind; Earth smiles around with boundless...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine: I. Ancient ...

Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 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;...Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace; Wide, and more wide, th' o'errlowmgs of the mind His country next, and next all human race; Take ev'ry...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...serves the virtuous mind to wake, A> the small jiebble stirs the peaceful lake ; The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still...and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th' o'ernowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind ; 370 Karth smiles around, with boundless...
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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on ..., Volume 7

1810 - 500 pages
...but serves the virtuous mind.to wake, As the small pebble stirs tin peaceful lake, The centre mov'd- a circle straight succeeds; Another still- and* still...spreads; Friend- parent, neighbour, first it will fmbrac* ; His country next- and next all human race. Pope. i THE CONCLUDING ESSAY. ALTHOUGH we have...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton ...

William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...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...and next, all human race ; Wide, and more wide, th' overflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind ; Earth smiles around, with boundless...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord ..., Volume 11

William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 446 pages
...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...and next, all human race ; Wide, and more wide, th' o'erflowings of the mind Take every creature in, of every kind ; Earth smiles around, with boundless...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 2

John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...word muffcnding, or inofemne, rather, would be equally as proper. The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads;...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...
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Practical piety; or, The influence of the religion of the heart on ..., Volume 2

Hannah More - Christian life - 1811 - 276 pages
...virtuous mind to make As the small pebble stirs the peaceful Uke ; The centre mov'd, a circle strait succeeds. Another still, and still another spreads...embrace. His country next, and next all human race. The Author hopes to be forgiven for these remarks : she has hazarded them tor the sake of her more...
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