 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 Sabine - 1810 - 308 sidor
...all the gopd that individuals find, . ,-( Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, X SELECT POEMS. 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. POPE. The true Reward of Virtue. What nothing earthly... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 sidor
...short summer — man a flow'r ; He dies — Alas ! how soon he dies ! The Source of Hafifiiness. ' . Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and comp«tence : But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 sidor
...raise. Know, nil the good that individuals find, Or Hod and Nature meant to mere mankind, Hcason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense. Lie in three words. Health, Peace, and Competence, Hut Health consists with Temperance alone ; bl And Peace, Oh Virtue ! Peace is all thy own. The pood... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 444 sidor
...be gained only by VIRTUE, namely, by temperance, innocence, and industry : Reason's whole pleasures, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health,...competence. But health consists with temperance alone, And peace, O Virtue ! peace is all thy own, The first line, Reasons whole pleasures, all the joys of... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 sidor
...be gained only by VIRTUE, namely, by temperance, innocence, and industry : Reason's whole pleasures, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health,...competence. But health consists with temperance alone, And peace, O Virtue ! peace is all thy own. The first line, Reasons whole pleasures, all the joys of... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 sidor
...a short summer—man a flow'rj He dies—Alas !—how soon he dies! \ . r The source of happiness. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie...competence : But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. Placid emotion. Who can forbear to smile with nature... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1812 - 224 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, healih, peace, and competence : But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, O virtue ! peace... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 sidor
...short summer — man a flow'r ; He dies — alus ! — how soon he dies ! The souree of Happiness. Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peaee, and eompetenee j But health eonsists with temperanee alone ; Aud peaee, O virtue ! peaee is... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1814 - 308 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...competence ; But health consists with temperance alone j And peace, O virtue ! peace is all thy own. On earth nought precious is obtain'd, But what is painful... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 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...Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. 80 But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh, virtue! peace is all thy own. The good... | |
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