 | Benjamin Franklin - 1819 - 520 páginas
...RELIGION,' IN TWO PARTS. [Referred to in Memoirs of the Life, Part 77.] Here will 1 hold — If there is a power above us (and that there is, all nature cries...virtue; and that which he delights in, must be happy. — CATO. PART I. — FIRST PRINCIPLES. I BELIEVE there is one supreme most perfect Being, author and... | |
 | William Scott - 1819 - 366 páginas
...Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, lh' unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here...happy. But when ; or where ? This world was made for Caesar : I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying hit hand on hit sword. Thus I am... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 páginas
...intimates eternity tn man. If there's a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in. must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Corvley, on a lady elaborately... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 430 páginas
...intimates eternity t> man. If there's a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity • the celebrated stanza of Corvley, on a lady... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1822 - 508 páginas
...These observations in favour of the Roman people, may now be very justly applied to our own nation. ' Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, And...virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.' ' This will be allowed, I hope, to be as virtuous a sentiment as that which he quotes out of Terence... | |
 | 1822 - 336 páginas
...weeks' daily examination. This my little book had for its motto these lines from Addison's Cato : " Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And...delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in most be happy." • Another from Cicero, " O viice Philosophia dux ! O rirlutum indagatrix expultrixque... | |
 | Mason Locke Weems - 1822 - 272 páginas
...also the language of his hrst or horn b-wk, I mean REASON, iihich teaches, thai if "there be a Godt and that there is all nature cries aloud through all her works, he must delight in virtue.' because most cleariy; EorulucLve to the perfection of mankind: vri'icli must be -.he dud aim and glory... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here...conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his hand on hit ncord. Thus I am doubly arm'd. My death and life, My bane and antidote are both before me. This,... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here...happy. But when, or where ? — This world was made for Csesar. I'm weary of conjectures — this must end 'em. Thus am I doubly arm'd — My death and life,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 páginas
...Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here...happy. But when? or where ? This world was made for Caesar. I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. Thus am I doubly armed : my death* and life,t... | |
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The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which... 
