Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. Idler - Page 254by Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823Full view - About this book
| 1814 - 578 pages
...virtue depend ? Not on the arbitrary will of the Deity, but on his moral attributes. As the poet says, " He must delight in virtue, and that which he delights in must be happy." Its necessity, its meetness, its jitnett or adaptation to salvation, stamps so high a value on it,... | |
| 1814 - 572 pages
...virtue depend ? Not on the arbitrary will of the Deity, but on his moral attributes. As the poet says, " He must delight in virtue, and that which he delights in must be happy." Its necessity, its mtetness, its fitness or adaptation to salvation, stamps so high a value on it,... | |
| 1814 - 572 pages
...virtue depend ? Not on the arbitrary will of the Deity, but on his moral attributes. As the poet says, " He must delight in virtue, and that which he delights in must be happy." Its necessity, its mcetness, its fitness or adaptation to salvation, stamps so high a value on it,... | |
| Joshua P. Slack - 1815 - 340 pages
...it. Here will I hold. If there's a pow'r above us, (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? — This world was made for Caesar, I'm weary of conjectures — this must end... | |
| Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - 496 pages
...shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where .'—this world was made for Caesar : I'm wear; of conjectures— this must end... | |
| Louis-Pierre Siret - 1815 - 198 pages
...Here will I hold : If there's a power above us , ( And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works ) he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in , must be happv. But when ! or where ! — This world was made" for Cicsar. I'm weary of conjectures — this... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 pages
...within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. If there's a power above us, And that there is all nature cries...to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately dressed, loses nothing of its freedom by the spirit of the sentiment... | |
| 1817 - 314 pages
...it. Here will I hold. If there's a Pow'r above us, (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ?—This world was made for Thus am I doubly arm'd. My death and life, My bane... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...intimates eternity to man. If there's a Power above us, And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that...to wit than to sublimity : the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately dressed, loses nothing of its freedom by the spirit of the sentiment... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 566 pages
...ft Here will I hold: If there's a Power above us, (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works,) He must delight in Virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy." Another from Cicero, " O Vita Philosophia Dux! O Virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum ! Unus Dies... | |
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