 | Henry Fielding - 1766 - 402 pages
...Rome itfelf had run before it ; from virtuous induftry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of difcipline and corruption of morals; till, by a N 6 « total • total degeneracy and lofs of virtue, being grown • ripe for deftruftion, it falls... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1778 - 502 pages
...Rome itfelf had run before it ; from virtuous induftry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of difcipline and corruption of morals...degeneracy and lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deftruttion, it falls a prey at laft to fome hardy oppreflbr, and, with the lofs of liberty, lofing... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1783 - 412 pages
...Rome itfelf had run before it ; from virtuous induflry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of difcipline and corruption of morals ; till, by a N 6 ' total total degeneracy and lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deftruftion, it falls a prey... | |
 | English essays - 1784 - 1048 pages
...from virtuous indultry to wealth; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals: till, by a total degeneracy and -lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deftruiVion, it falls a prey at hilt to fome hardy oppreilbr, and, with the lofs of liberty, lofes... | |
 | English essays - 1784 - 552 pages
...from virtuous induftry to wealth; from wealth TO luxury; from luxury to an impatience of discipline and corruption of morals: till, by a total degeneracy and lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deffniclion, it falls a prey at Jail to fomc hardy oppreiTor, and, with the lofs of liberty, lofes... | |
 | John Jebb, John Disney - Theology - 1787 - 612 pages
...Rome itfelf had run before it; from virtuous induflry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of difcipline, and corruption of...degeneracy, and lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deftru&ion, it falls a prey at laft to fome hardy oppreflbr, and, with the lofs of liberty, lofmg every... | |
 | Conyers Middleton - Authors, Latin - 1790 - 412 pages
...Rome itfelf had run before it ; from virtuous induftry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of difcipline, and corruption of...degeneracy and lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deftructiori, it falls a prey at laft to fome hardy oppreffor, and , with the lofs of liberty , lofing... | |
 | Algernon Sidney - Political science - 1794 - 514 pages
...Rome itfelf tad run before it; from virtuous induftry to wealth; from wealth to luxury; from luxury to an impatience of difcipline and corruption of morals ; till by a total degvneracy and lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deftruflion ; it falls 3 prey at lair, to fome... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1797 - 472 pages
...Rome itfelf had run before it ; from virtuous induftry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of difcipline and corruption of morals...degeneracy and lofs of virtue, being grown ripe for deftruftion, it falls a prey at laft to fome hardy oppreflbr, and, with the lofs of liberty lofing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 508 pages
...from virtuous induftry to wealth ; from wealth to luxury ; from luxury to an impatience of difciplinc and corruption of morals ; till, by a total degeneracy...deftruction, it falls a prey at laft to fome hardy opprefibr, and, with the lofs of liberty lofing every thing elfe that is valuable, finks gradually... | |
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Romans , is become the happy feat of liberty, plenty, and letters; flourifhing in all the arts and refinements of civil life } yet running perhaps the fame courfe, which Rome itfelf had run before it ; from virtuous induftry to wealth ; from wealth to... 
