 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.  The Cambridge Examiner - Page 811881Full view - About this book
 | Robert Blakey - Ethics - 1833 - 408 pages
...This must be so well known to every reader, that lengthened quotations are altogether unnecessary. " Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to...we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all — And to their proper operation still Ascribe all good — to their improper, ill." Bolingbroke enters... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1833 - 240 pages
...pair of blinds. The tutor commends him for being more studious than any other pupils of the school. Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain : Nor that a good, nor this a bad we call j Each works its end, to move or govern all. Temperance and exercise,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1833 - 222 pages
...principles 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, howsoever little they may be regarded, they are the best means of preserving... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...; 50 Then see how little the remaining sum, Which served the past, and must the times to come ! n. Two principles in human nature reign ; Self-love to...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1835 - 266 pages
...blinds. The tutor commends 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 » 2) a good, nor this (8 n 2) a bad we call ; Each works its end, to move or govern all. Temperance... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...: SO 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...we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper, ill. Self-love, the spring... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...£( Then sec how little the remaining sum, Which served the past, and must tire times to come ! 11. Sj* had we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascrihe... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - Eighteenth century - 1836 - 672 pages
...imitating god. ") EpUt. II. VN 53. Two principle! in human nature reign ; Self-love to urge, and rea«on to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call Each works its end to move ur govern all And to tbeir proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper ill. 438 ©rfier... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 250 pages
...pair of blinds. The tutor commends ham for being more studious than any other pupils of the school. Two principles 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,... | |
 | Samuel Drew - Immortality - 1837 - 336 pages
...reason and self-love, may further serve to illustrate the distinctions between instinct and reason: " Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to...we call. Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good, to their improper ill. " Self-love, the spring... | |
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