 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 British Essayists;: Guardian - Strana 24podľa Alexander Chalmers - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1814 - Počet stránok 572
...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 - Počet stránok 340
...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 Through...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... | |
 | Louis-Pierre Siret - 1815 - Počet stránok 198
...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 Through all...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... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - 1815 - Počet stránok 496
...me: But 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Počet stránok 484
...intimates eternity to man. If there's a power above us, And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works, he must delight in virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity ; the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately... | |
 | 1816 - Počet stránok 770
....And did of others make celeftial pow'r s. Darvitl. .. . , •.. If there's a pow'r above u 3, . . And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works, he muft delight irt , , virtue." • Addifon, II. .Divinity. — ' , Merciful powen ! Reftrain in me the... | |
 | 1817 - Počet stránok 314
...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 Through...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 - Počet stránok 420
...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 aloud Through...virtue, And that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to wit than to sublimity : the celebrated stanza of Cowley, on a lady elaborately... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - Počet stránok 566
...had for its motto, these lines from Addison's Cato : u Here will I hold; If there's a Power above us, (And that there is, .all Nature cries aloud Through...Virtue $ And that which he delights in must be happy." Another from Cicero, " O Vita Philosophia Dux! O Virtutum indagatrix fipultrixque vitiorum ! Unus Dies... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - Počet stránok 610
...MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE, Part If. p. 67. 4fo. Edit.} Here will I hold — If there is a power above us (and that there is, all nature cries aloud, through...delight in virtue ; and that which he delights in, roust be happy. — CATO. PART I. FIRST PRINCIPLES. I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being,... | |
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