 Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.  The Sportsman - Sida 172Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 sidor
...madmen in the heaps they raise. Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and Nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys...Competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; 81 And peace, Oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of Fortune gain ; But... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 sidor
...madmen in the heaps thejrraise. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys...competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these... | |
 | 1801 - 446 sidor
...and unquestionably, the answer will be that nothing can impart to competence the least advantage— " Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, " Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. An hundred dishes after the novelty has passed, cannot gratify the man who wishes to pamper his appetite,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1802 - 170 sidor
...common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...words, health, peace, and competence : But health censists with temperance alone ; And peace, Oh Virtue ! peace is all thy own, On earth nought prcciuos... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 sidor
...in the Ireaps they raise. ' • Know all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys...competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of fortune gain ; But these... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 sidor
...skies I Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys, 75 And buries madmen in the heaps they raise. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...Competence. But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh, Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The good or bad the gifts of Fortune gain ; But these... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 sidor
...madmen in the heaps they raise. Know, all the good that individual" find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys...Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence, SWEETNESS. AN ODE. BY Mil. ROBERTSON. Or damask cheeks and radiant eyes, Let other poets tell ; Within... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 sidor
...the heaps they raise. Know , all the good that individual* find , Or God and Nature meant to mer« mankind , Reason's whole pleasure , all the joys of...in three words , Health , Peace , and Competence. POPS. CHAP. XVI. On Virtue. J\.KOW thou this truth (enough for man to know} a Virtue alone is happiness... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1804 - 102 sidor
...common sense. Needful austerities our wills restrain ; As thorns fence in the tender plant from harm. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, ar.d competence ;. But health consists with temperance ?.. • ; And peace, Oh, Virtue ! peace is all... | |
 | Thomas Tomkins - 1806 - 338 sidor
...views of better, or of worse. Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys...Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence. True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and-noise: it arises, in the first place,... | |
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