| Great Britain - 1840 - 452 pages
...that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so few are offended with it. — Swift. Where vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is a private station. — Calo. POET II V. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. " Our conversation a in heaven." I. WHEN life around us gaily... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 644 pages
...vengeance only upon the virtuous. To yourselves, therefore, I consign you. Enjoy your own pandemonium — ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.'" (') " I glory," said the Alderman, " in the fact laid to my charge. I know that whatever punishment... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1840 - 626 pages
...vengeance only upon the virtuous. To yourselves, therefore, I consign you. Enjoy your own pandemonium — ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.'" (') " I glory," said the Alderman, " in the fact laid to my charge. I know that whatever punishment... | |
| Alfred Bunn - Theater - 1840 - 318 pages
...of Denmark" will be cleansed and purged away ! O that I could at this moment have said, as I felt, " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, " The post of honour is a private station :" but I had to move onwards, and did so. It will naturally be asked, as it often has been, why any... | |
| Edward Mangin - Authors, English - 1841 - 198 pages
...received with shouts of approval: it adorns the end of Act IV., and Cato himself delivers it:— " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." Let any one fancy this profound axiom admitted as a rule of conduct, and then inquire what the result... | |
| Edward Mangin - Authors, English - 1841 - 194 pages
...received with shouts of approval: it adorns the end of Act IV., and Cato himself delivers it:— • " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour Is a private station." Let any one fancy this profound axiom admitted as a rule of conduct, and then inquire what the result... | |
| Archibald Alison - Europe - 1843 - 1154 pages
...stations of the world. Then is the period when the indignant lines of the poet are indeed applicable — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station." That the spirit of freedom was at no period the Theprin- ruling passion of the French Revolution has... | |
| Moses Mendelssohn - German language - 1844 - 626 pages
...пайгифег 3ug ifi in meinen 3íugen mef>r tcett^, Ш „fjunbert ©ebanfen rcie ber fotgenbe : When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station; bas tfî: ЯВо 2ûfter gilt unb 2otterbuben ©tnb ©tjrenftellen ein gemetneè TCmt „ßato", fa^rt... | |
| Moses Mendelssohn - German letters - 1844 - 626 pages
...па1игифег 3ug ifl in tneinen 2(ugen mefjr »ert^, aie „fyunbert ©ebanfen roie ber folgenbe: When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station; Ьав t|î: Sßo Softer gilt unb Sotterbuben fcerrfíben, ©inb ©Çrenftcllen ein gemeines 3Cmt.... | |
| Salem Town - American literature - 1847 - 420 pages
...And all our frugal ancestors were blessed In humble virtues and a rural life. There live retired ; content thyself to be Obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honor is a private station ! 4. Farewell, my friends ! If there be any of you Who dares not trust the... | |
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