 | Joseph Addison - 1713 - 222 lehte
...time ? No, let us draw her Term of Freedom out In its full Length, and fpin it to the lali , So (hall we gain ftill one Day's Liberty ; And let me perifh,...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... | |
 | Caleb D'Anvers - 1731 - 444 lehte
...are able, from all fucceeding Generations. Why fhould Rome fall a Moment e'er her Time ? No, let us draw her Term of Freedom out In its full Length, and...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 fhould be... | |
 | 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 Letter... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 lehte
...late To fue for chains, and own a conqueror. Why mould Rome fall a moment ere her time » No, let us draw her term of freedom out In its full length, and...hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS. MARCUS. Fathers, this moment as I watch'd the Lodg'd on my poft, a herald... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 368 lehte
...full length, and fpin it to the laft. So fhall we gain ttill one day's liberty ; And let me pefifh, but in Cato's judgment, A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Enter MARCUS. MARCUS. Fathers, tins moment as I watch'd the. gates, Lodg'd on my port,... | |
 | 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 fubfides, and... | |
 | 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& of Life.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 364 lehte
...us draw her term of freedom out In its 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
