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The Young Man's Best Companion and Guide to Useful Knowledge - Page 32
by John Dougall - 1815 - 476 pages
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper ill. ame the meanness of his humble shed; No costly lord...sumptuous banquet deal, To make him loathe his vegetable : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot ; Or, meteor-like,...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good; to their improper, ill. 4 Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's...attend, And, but for this, were active to no end; Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate and rot; Or, meteor-like, flame...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...move or govern all : And to their proper 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. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for 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
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good ; to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end ; Fix'd like...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...move or govern all : And to their proper 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. 60 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end ; Fix'd like...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...move or govern all ; And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good — to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's...could attend, And but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd, like a plaut, on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot; Or, meteor-like,...
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Conversations on English Grammar: Explaining the Principles and Rules of the ...

Charles M. Ingersoll - English language - 1825 - 298 pages
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all Good, to their improper, 111. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's...could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot : Or, meteor-like,...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...govern all: And to their proper 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 strength the moving principle requires ; Active its task, it prompts, impele, inspires. Sedate...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...operations still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, ;ut , the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole...for that, no action could attend, And but for this, wore active to no end : Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot ; To draw nutrition, propagate, and...
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The Poetical Works, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole, 6.0 Man, but for that, no action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end : Fix'd like...
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