 | 1828 - 844 pages
...hope," Addison, in his Tragedy of Cato, has the following expressive lines with regard to liberty: Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The gen'rous plan of pow'r ; deliver'd down, From age te age, by your renown'd forefathers ; So dearly bought, the price... | |
 | Caleb Hopkins Snow - Boston (Mass.) - 1828 - 482 pages
...castle, and knocked off the trunnions of the cannon.' CHAPTER L1V. " The laws, the rights, The generous plan of power delivered down From age to age, by your renown'd forefather!, So dearly bought, the price of so much blood." THE inhabitants of Boston speedily returned... | |
 | Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1830 - 344 pages
...BRAMBLETYE HOUSE/' &c, &c. ' ' . / •'. Remember, 0 my friends ! the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power delivered down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers : O let it never perish in your hands, But piously transmit it to your children! CATO. IN THREE VOLUMES.... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...bore. Meanwhile we'll sacrifice to liberty. Remember, 0 my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power delivered down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, . (So dearly bought, the price of so much blood;) Oh, let it never perish in your hands! But piously... | |
 | David Williams - English literature - 1858 - 388 pages
...saffron?—A. From Arabia. THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION. Remember, 0 myfriendt! the Lavas, the Rights, The generous plan of power, delivered down From age to age by your renown'd forefathers, So dearly bought! the price of so much blood ! Oh, let it never perish in your hands ! But piously... | |
 | English drama - 1867 - 336 pages
...Meanwhile, we'll sacrifice to liberty. Eemember, О my friends, the laws, the rights, The generous plan of power delivered down, From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers, So dearly bought, the price of so much blood : О let it never perish in your hands, But piously transmit... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...deaths remember they are men : Strain not the laws to make their torture grievous. ADDISON. 2S6 287 Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The gen'rous plan of power deliver'd down From age to age to your renown'd forefathers. ADDISON. Could any but a knowing prudent... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...in their deaths remember they are men: Strain not the laws to make their torture grievous. zS6 287 Remember, O my friends, the laws, the rights, The gen'rous plan of power deliver' d down From age to age to your renown'd forefathers. ADDISON. Could any but a knowing prudent... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Buchanan, James - 1883 - 732 pages
...shouting for the hero of Lundy's Lane, Cerro Gordo, and Chapultepec ? " Remember, 0 my friends! the law.i, the rights, The gen'rous plan of power delivered down, From age to age, by your renown 'd forefathers, So dearly bought, the price of so mnch blood ; O ! Let it never perish in yonr... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Buchanan, James - 1883 - 726 pages
...of a military conqueror, and shouting for the hero of Lundy's Lane, Cerro Qordo, and Chapultepec ? " Remember, O my friends! the laws, the rights, The gen'rous plan of power delivcr'd down. From age to age, by your renown'd forefathers. So dearly bought, the price of so much... | |
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Oh, let it never perish in your hands! But piously transmit it to your children. Do thou, great liberty, inspire our souls, And make our lives in thy possession happy, Or our deaths glorious... 
