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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 — ill. "
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...provided the first line does not end with an emphatic word which requires the falling slide. EXAMPLE. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. All nature is but art unknown to thee, All chance, direction which thou canst not see : All discord,...
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English exercises, adapted to the grammar lately published by L. Murray ...

Lindley Murray - 1823 - 236 pages
...The tutor commends him for being more studious than any other pupils of the school. Two principle! in human nature reign ; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain: Nor that a good, nor this a bad we call; Each works its end, to move or govern all. Temperance and exercise,...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 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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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...nature reign ; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, 45 Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to...soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 30 Man. out for that, no action could attend, And, out tor this, were active to no end ; Fix'd like...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 pages
...60 Then see how little the remaining sum, Which serv'd 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, 56 Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...Rhetoric, Poetry, &c. which administer to luxury, deceit, ambition, effeminacy, &c. Warburton. II. Two Principles in human nature reign ; Self-love,...restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call ; 55 Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...Rhetoric, Poetry, &c. which administer . to luxury, deceit, ambition, effeminacy, &c. Warburton. II. Two Principles in human nature reign ; Self-love,...restrain ; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call ; 55 Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...; 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...operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. 4Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Moet...
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Conversations on English Grammar: Explaining the Principles and Rules of the ...

Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...safer than our own : Of ages past inquire, What the most formidable fate ; " To have our own desire." Two Principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to...operation still, Ascribe all Good, to their improper, 111. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man...
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...see how little the remaining sum, Whieh serv'd the past, and must the times to eome ! Two prineiples One year is past ; a different seene ! No further...mention of the Dean, Who now, alas ! no more is miss eall, Eaeh works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still Aseribe all good,...
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