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" Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul ; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. "
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1889
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...arts ; Then see how little the remaining sum. Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come! II, Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain ; INor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all : And to their...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...train ri important victories ; by a seriesofcampaigi.s but bva succession of triumphs. — Oil 15. Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restva'n ; Nor this a gord, nor that a bad we call. Each works its end — to move or govern all. fofte...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1842 - 604 pages
...Does not every man that breathes, live under the influence of two principles. In the words of Pope, Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.* Or, as Swift more familiarly expresses it, the flesh and the spirit are engaged through life in a ceaseless...
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L'essai sur l'homme

Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pages
...; Then see how little the remaining sum , Which serv'd the past , and must the times to come ! II. Two Principles in human nature reign ; Self-love , to urge , and Reason , to restrain ; \ Mais des secrets des cieux l'interprète sublime , Pouvait-il de son être approfondir l'abîme?...
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The Works of Alexander Pope;

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...NOTES. Then see how little the remaining sum, Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come ! II. Two Principles in human nature reign ; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain ; Ver. 53. Tico Principles, &c.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the study of Man,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...179. Then see how little the remaining sum, Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come ! II. Two Principles in human nature reign ; Self-love, to urge, and Reason, to restrain ; NOTES. Ver. 53. Two Principles, &c.] The Poet having shewn the difficulty which attends the study...
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The reigning vice: a satirical essay [by C.H. Townshend. In verse].

Chauncy Hare Townshend - 1827 - 424 pages
...her dominion over the whole mass of mankind, but over the nature of each individual. Pope has said, " Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and Reason to restrain." These apparently separate elements are shewn to be one and the same. Yet (it is objected) some persons...
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Geschichte des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts und des neunzehnten bis ..., Volume 1

Friedrich Christoph Schlosser - 1843 - 712 pages
...the mazy rounds his followers trod , And quitting sense call imitating god. 66) Epist. II. Vs. 53. Two principles in human nature reign; Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain; bung unter ЗЯепГфеп, »om Urfprunge ber Aûnfîe unb ЯЩеп< [фареп. 3n letzten unb...
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Fame: And Other Poems

Barnard Shipp - 1848 - 224 pages
...And glow through heaven with intenser ray, As planets, suns, and systems shall decay. THE CONTRAST. 'Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain." — POPE. FROM the same source the acts of mortals spring, So nature teaches, and the minstrels sing:...
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The Passions: Or, Mind and Matter

John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - 496 pages
...Self-love is the mainspring of all human actions, honourable or dishonourable, laudable or despicable : " Two principles in human nature reign : Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain." The Supreme has wisely bristled all mortal enjoyments with obstacles, necessary to check, if not sufficient...
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