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" 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. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes - Page 273
by Samuel Johnson - 1811
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The Guardian, Volume 1

1797 - 522 pages
...favour of the Roman people, may now be very juftly applied to our own nation. ' Here will. I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works) He rouft delight in virtue; And that which He delights in inuft be happy.' •' This will be allowed,...
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Bell's British Theatre: Douglas, by J. Home. ... The alchymist, altered from ...

1797 - 462 pages
...before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above (And that there is all nature cries aloud, Through all her works) he must delight in virtu* ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ! or where — this world was made for...
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The Young Philosopher: A Novel ...

Charlotte Smith - 1798 - 414 pages
...which was written by one of the beft and moft pious men of the laft age, I would fay in his words : If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he muft delight in virtue*. And the queftion what that virtue is, in which a benevolent and omnipotent...
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Vaderlandsche letter-oefeningen, Part 2

1798 - 626 pages
...wege van Aantekeningen aan den voet der bladzyde te plaatzen. £. SN fiere will I hold: if there is a power above us (.And that there is , all nature cries aloud Thro" all her works) hè must delight in virtue, And that which hè delighti ia, must be happy. (f)...
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Essays and Treatises on Moral, Political, and Various ..., Volume 2

Immanuel Kant - 1799 - 498 pages
...ONLY POSSIBLE ARGUMENT TOR THE DEMONSTRATION OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD — If there's a po^v't vbove uv, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works) he must delight in virtue. ADDISON'S CATO. PREF ACE, Nee mea dona tibi studio disposta fiddi Intdlecta prius quam sint, contemta...
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Essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul. With remarks by the ...

David Hume - 1799 - 142 pages
...lies before me ; But fhadows , clouds, and darknefs reft upon 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 muft delight in virtue ; • And that which he delights in muft be happy. But when! or where! — This...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

1800 - 322 pages
...before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold — If there's a Pow'r above us, (And that there is, all nature cries aloud...virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy. A PARAPHRASE »a PART OF THE NINETEENTH PSALM. ADDI5ON.' 1 HE spacious firmament on high, ' With all...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2

George Campbell - 1801 - 404 pages
...an example of the like construction in the conjunction that, these words of the poet will suffice ; If there's a power above us ; AND that there is, all Nature cries aloud Thro' all her works ; he must delight in virtue J. It is not material that the whole is here comprised...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 15

British essayists - 1802 - 304 pages
...Here will 1 hold. If there's a I'owerahpve us, (And that there is all Nature cries aloud Through ail her works,) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy But when, or where?-> This world was ma;!e for Cxsar, I'm weary of conjecture — This must end them....
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Select British Classics, Volume 37

1803 - 440 pages
...Roman people, may aow b« very justly applied to our own nui ion. Here will I hold. If there's a Pow'r above us, (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud...must delight in virtue-; And that which he delights iu must be happy. dj^_ This will be allowed, I hope, to be as virtuous a. sentimert as that which he...
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