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" The wide, the 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 Through all her works, — He must delight in virtue; And that... "
Essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul. With remarks by the ... - Page 111
by David Hume - 1799
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The Life of Benjamin Franklin: With Many Choice Anecdotes and Admirable ...

Mason Locke Weems - Statesmen - 1822 - 272 pages
...also the language of his hrst or horn b-wk, I mean REASON, iihich teaches, thai if "there be a Godt and that there is all nature cries aloud through all her works, he must delight in virtue.' because most cleariy; EorulucLve to the perfection of mankind: vri'icli must...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...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 Through all her works) he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when? or where ? This world...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...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 Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? — This...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. With hist. and biogr ..., Volume 8

Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...lies before me ; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest npon it. 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 thai which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where I This world...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...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 Through all her works) he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 286 pages
...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 Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy. But when, or where ? This world...
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Letters on Miscellaneous and Domestic Subjects: Intended for the Use of the ...

Benjamin Oakley - 1823 - 442 pages
...satisfied. Well, I do believe the world turns round. What changes ! what vicissitudes ! " If there 'sa Power above us, (and that there is, all nature cries aloud through all her works "), then I can easily believe in your transition from Cader Idris to Gordon House, one of those miraculous...
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The London Stage: A Collection of the Most Reputed Tragedies ..., Volume 2

English drama - 1824 - 660 pages
...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 Through all her works, he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in, must be happy.) But when? or where? This world...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...little book had for its motto, these lines from Addison's Cato: " 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 !" 19 Another from the Proverbs...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 548 pages
...'Tis 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 all her works, he must delight in virtue, Arid that which he delights in must be happy. Nor is ease more contrary to...
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