 | Acting drama - 1839 - 892 lehte
...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 wurth a whole eternity in bondage, Enttr J CUR'S. Jun. Fathers, even now, a herald is arriVd From Caesar's... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840
...annihilation of servitude and chains. The impression made in boyhood by the glorious exclamation of Cato, that A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity of bondage, has been worn deeper, not effaced, by time ; and we eagerly and ardently trust that the rday will yet... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840
...slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods ; " A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bondage." You have seen power in its various forms, — a benign deity, when exercised in the suppression of... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840
...of servitude and chains. The impression made in boyhood by the glorious excla. million of Cato, that A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity of bondage, has been worn deeper, not effaced, by time ; and we eagerly and ardently trust that the "clay will... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 364 lehte
...| 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 whole eternity in bondage. | [Enter MARCUS.] Marc. Fathers, this moment, as I watch'd the gate, | Lodg'd on my post,... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - 1843 - 380 lehte
...stalk about and draw fresh air From time to time, or gaze upon the sun ;— •Tis to be free !— A day — an hour of virtuous Liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bondage ! JAMES THOMPSON. Kind equal rule, the government of laws, And all-prolecting Freedom, whieli alone,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 300 lehte
...suspects himself a fool." " Thou sun ! of this world both eye and soul, Acknowledge Him thy greater." " A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, is worth a whole eternity of bondage." " Oh ! swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon," " O, Death, the good man's dearest friend." " The... | |
 | George Willson - 1844 - 288 lehte
...an argument : Shall I reward his services with falsehood ? Shall I forget Mm who cannot forget me ? A day, an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bondage. Had she been true, If Heaven would make me such another world Of one entire and perfect chrysolite,... | |
 | Edward Vaughan H. Kenealy - 1845
...bleed for an age at thy shrine Than to sleep but a moment in chains." ADDISON. Cato, act ii. sc. 1 . " A day, an hour of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity of bondage." The original of these lines is pointed out by Bishop Warburton, in a letter to Concanen. • CICERO.... | |
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
