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" Two Principles in human nature reign; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good; to their improper, 111. "
An essay on man. Cornish ed - Page 35
by Alexander Pope - 1798
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...arts; 50 Then see how little the remaining sum, Which served the past, and must the times to come ! II. Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to...restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each work its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their...
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English Exercises ...: With which the Corresponding Notes, Rules, and ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1828 - 268 pages
...uprightness. The tutor commpnds him for being more studious than any other (8 n 7) pupils of the school. Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain : Nor that (8 n 2) a good, nor this (8 n 2) a bad we call; Each works its end, to move or govern all. He...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1829 - 420 pages
...a train of important victories ; not by a series of campaigns, but by a succession of triumphs. 15. Two principles in human nature reign, Selflove to...call, Each works its end — to move or govern all. — Pope. 16. In point of sermons, 'tis confess'd Our English clergy make the best ; But this appears,...
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the Language ...

Lindley Murray - English language - 1829 - 766 pages
...being Ute most studious pupil of the school. Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to nrge, and reason to restrain : Nor this a good, nor that...call ; Each works its end, to move or govern all. Temperance and exercise, how little soever they may be re* garded, are the best means of preserving...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...created arts: Then see how little the remaining sum, Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come! 3 Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love to...operation still, Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill. 4 Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...arts ; SO Then see how little the remaining sum, Which served the past, and must the times to come II. aU : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, Uie...
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Lord Byron: Don Juan

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - Don - 1977 - 772 pages
...Byron humorously adopted part of a traditional psychology that Pope, among many others, had explained: 'Two Principles in human nature reign; / Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain.' Pope's view of self-love as the primary motive for action followed the ancient theory popular in the...
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The Cultivation of Hatred

Peter Gay - History - 1993 - 724 pages
...1879), 18. 4. Early in the eighteenth century, Alexander Pope had already noted in his Essay on Man, "Two Principles in human nature reign; / Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain." Without a measure of egotism, man would not be active, but egotism without the restraint of reason...
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Human Nature Mythology

Kenneth Elliott Bock - Philosophy - 1994 - 156 pages
...way as to curb violent pursuit of one's aims and to promote peaceful interaction. Thus Pope, again: "Two principles in human nature reign; / Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain." 12 But the matter was not left there, for when passion is given such power and reason is all but left...
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Cannibalism and the Colonial World

Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen - History - 1998 - 330 pages
...rationalism, allegedly the authentic nature of 'Man'. As Alexander Pope opined in An Essay on Man: Two principles in human nature reign; / Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain'. The struggle between 'self-love' and self abnegation, between senseless appetite and reasoned restraint,...
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