 | R T. Linnington - 1837 - 274 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 worth a whole ETERNITY in bondage. [Enter Junius.} JUN. Fathers, this moment, as I watch 'd the gate, Lodg'd on my post, a... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 lehte
...full length, and spin it to the last, So shall we gain still one dav'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. Marcus. Fathers, tliis moment, as I wítcW the gates Lodg'd on my post, a... | |
 | 1841 - 986 lehte
...ON ADDISON'S "CATO." — Every one a acquainted with that passage of Addison in his tragedy of Cato, "a day, an hour of virtuous liberty, is worth a whole eternity of bondage." Liberty appeared too cheaply estimated at tliis rate to a bookseller in Sunderland, who some years... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 lehte
...precisely the same tone of voice, how shockingly would the spirit and beauty of the sentiment be marred ! A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. act only two words in succession, but even three, four, or five, with scarcely a perceptible... | |
 | Acting drama - 1839 - 936 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 - 350 lehte
...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 - 306 lehte
...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 - 344 lehte
...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 - 410 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 - 598 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,... | |
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
