 | Joseph Addison - 1713 - 222 lehte
...full Length, and fpin it to the lali , So (hall 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 in Bondage. Enter Marcus. Mate. Fathers, this Moment as I watch'd the Gates, Lodg'd on my Poft, a Herald is arrived... | |
 | Caleb D'Anvers - 1731 - 444 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 - 1777 - 354 lehte
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 366 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 liberty, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 614 lehte
...give myfelfe the pleafure offettIng down fome imitations I obfervrd in the Cato of Addifon. Addiftn. A day an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Ad 2. St. I. Tally. Quod fi immortalitas confequeretur prxfentis periculi fugam, tamen eo magis ea... | |
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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... 
