 | Joseph Addison - 1713 - 222 Seiten
...lajt ; •f So jhall we gain ft ill one Day's Libert? : , let mt perijh, but in CatoV Jndgt»entt i 'A Day, an Hour of virtuous Liberty Is worth a whole Eternity in Bondage, Let us now fee whether his Behaviour in the Fourth ASt is anfwerable to all this. When the Confpiracyof... | |
 | Caleb D'Anvers - 1731 - 444 Seiten
...full Length, and fpin it to the laft. So fhall we gain ftill one Day's Liberty ; . And let me perifh, but, in Cato's Judgment, A Day, an Hour of virtuous Liberty, Is worth a whole Eternity of Bondage. Mr. Osborne may perceive from hence that you have no Occafion to icreen yourfelf, if you... | |
 | 1757 - 518 Seiten
...its full length, and fpin it to the laft, So mall we gain flill one day's liberty: And let me perifh; but in Cato's judgment A day, an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bondage. WHEN guilt broke through every dark veil of minifterial artifice, exerted to obftruct juftice... | |
 | 1771 - 508 Seiten
...to the punUhment' they deferve, and prove die validity of that expreflion of a Roman Senator, " That a day, an hour of virtuous liberty, is worth a whole eternity of, K bondage." AN ENGLISHMAN". -. Number XXXIL MORNING CHRONICLE,' November 25, 1 769. No. 151. A... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1773 - 364 Seiten
...freedom out. '- u ^.iMi, So fliall we gain ftill one day's liberty ; And let me perifli, but, in Goto' A judgment, • A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, ^ Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enttr MARCUS. MARCUS. J Fathers, this moment, as I watch'd the gates Lodg'd on my poft, a herald is... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1777 - 354 Seiten
...fpin it to the laft, So So fhall we gain ftill one day's liberty ; And let me perifh, but, in Gate's judgment, A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS. MA RC US. Fathers, this moment, as I watch'd the gates Lodg'd on my poft, a herald is arrived From... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 366 Seiten
...its full length, and fpin it to the laft. So mall we gain ftill one day's liherty^ And let me perifh, but in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in'bondage. Enter MARCUS. MARCUS. Fathers, this moment as I watch'd the gates, Lodg'd on mv poft, a... | |
 | James Hartley (Ph. D.) - 1784 - 606 Seiten
...the principles of liberty appear in all the elegant ornaments that Addifon's genius could cull — A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity of bondage. The fentiment, like an electrical fhock, flies to the very heart of the hearers ; party... | |
 | Lucius Annaeus Seneca - 1786 - 458 Seiten
...untafled fpring, Blefles his ftars, and thinks it luxury. Cato. (a] SeeEp. 71. (») And let me perifli but in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour of virtuous liberty. Is worth a whole eternity of bondage. Cats. EPISTLE CV. Certain Precepts, •with regard to Happinefs and Security, in the Condu&... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 364 Seiten
...full length, and fpin it to the laft. So fhall we gain (till one day's liberty ; And let me perifh, but in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour of virtuous...Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS. MARCUS. Fathers, this moment as I watch'd the gates, Lodg'd on my poft, a herald is arriv'd From Caefar's... | |
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Rome fall a moment ere her time ? No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one day's liberty: And let me perish, but, in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a... 
