 ORDER is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, 50 More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense.  The Dartmouth - Page 921867Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...more. 8. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, but each believes his own. < 9. O'rder is Heaven's first law ; and this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 10.... | |
 | Timothy Walker - 1830 - 38 pages
...amounts to. It goes upon the ground that there must be a diversity of conditions. This we admit. ' Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confessed, Some are and must be greater than the rest.' Now suppose that the lower orders of society are actually elevated several degrees by increased information.... | |
 | Orville Dewey - 1836 - 760 pages
...the arguments with which the ten would support their proposition. " Good people!" they would say, " ' Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest.' Society cannot be constructed without its base, its columns, and its Corinthian capitals ; we propose... | |
 | 1842 - 144 pages
...entrusted to the hands of monarchs ? and wherefore hath he made them his delegates ? The poet says, " Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are, and must be greater than the rest; More rich, more wise." To this end kings reign, that order may be preserved in a state. And this order... | |
 | Robert Woodward Cushman - 1843 - 160 pages
...if carried out in society, would, subvert the system on which the harmony even of heaven is based. ' Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are and must be greater than the rest.' And the church was not intended to be, to the institutions of society, an enemy in this respect, but an... | |
 | Henry Edward Elvins - 1844 - 200 pages
...convince the reflecting mind, is nothing less than a natural phenomenon. " Order is licavVs first law 1 and this confessed, Some are and must be greater than the rest 1 " — Pope. 483. The thing it pard'nable, &c. — Men addicted toany particular species of crime,... | |
 | Nathaniel Smith Richardson - 1847 - 420 pages
...order pervading all the different works of God. As the poet says, — EXISTING IN THREE ORDERS. 53 " Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are. and must be, greater than the rest." Even in the Godhead there appear conspicuous the principles of order. There is a sense, and a very... | |
 | Caleb Farnum (Jr.) - 1848 - 132 pages
...earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy ; Is virtue's prize. Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confessed, Some are, and must be, greate.r than the rest, More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence, That such are happier, shocks all common sense. Who... | |
 | 1849 - 630 pages
...a striking iudication of the confidence of the public — while the opinion is daily gaining ground that — " Order is Heaven's first law, and this confessed, Some are and must be greater than the rest." It would now he difficult to subvert or overrule that classification of the profession which has been... | |
 | Georges Hardinge Champion - 1849 - 548 pages
...heaps of snow. JAMES THOMPSON (FourSeasons. 1.726). HAPPINESS KEPENDS, NOT ON GOODS, BUT ON VHITBB. Order is Heaven's first law ; and this confessed, Some are, and must be, greater than thé rest, More rich, more wise ; but who infers from hence That such arehappier, shocksall common... | |
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