 | Elizabeth Singer Rowe - 1808 - 326 pages
...mind was prepared for conviction. I began to rea^ son with Cato, C ci If there's a pow'r above, • He must delight in virtue ; ' And that which he delights in must be happy.' I found myself now interested in the tiuths of Christianity. The firm belief of a life everlasting... | |
 | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...should be no future existence — what do we lose? — But, if there should be a future state ? — " and that there is, all nature cries aloud ( through all her works" — then what shall become of the philosophic infidel; the immoral Christian; and the mere nominal... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...unbounded, prospect lies before me; but shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (and that there is, all...virtue; and that, which he delights in, must be happy. But when, or where ? — this world was made for Cxsar : I 'ra weary of conjectures, this musl end... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...unbounded, prospect lies before me; but shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (and that there is, all...virtue; and that, which he delights in, must be happy. But when, or where ? — this world was made for Caesar : I 'ra weary of conjectures, this must end... | |
 | Thomas Janes - 1810 - 336 pages
...lies 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 ON PART OF THE NINETEENTH PSALM. ADDISON. IHE spacious firmament on high, With all the... | |
 | Thomas Paine - 1810 - 504 pages
...virtue eternally depend. If there's a power aboye us, (And that there is all nature crics aloud Thro' all her works) he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in, must be happy. But should this divine reasoning of the philosopher be at last inconclusive; could we once entertain... | |
 | 1809 - 420 pages
...greater claim to future recompense ? Thit world may be made for Cesar ; but if there's a power abcve us, (and that there is, all nature cries aloud through all her works} he must delight in VIBTUE. TASSO'S JERUSALEM. WITH pleasure we have observed that the elegant translation by Hoole of... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1810 - 414 pages
...that the merciful arc blessed for that reason. Examine now the following passage from Addison's Cato. If there's a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud In all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that, which be delights in, must be happy. Here is... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 272 pages
...unbounded prospect, lies before me ; ' But shadows; clouds, and darkness rest upon it. « Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, ' (And that there is all Nature cries aloud ' Though all her works) he must delight in virtue ; ' And that which he delights in must be happy.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...that stirs within us ; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. —————If there's a power above us, And that...contrary to wit than to sublimity : the celebrated itanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately dressed, loses nothing of its freedom by the spirit of the... | |
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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. 
