 | Giuseppe Pecchio - 1833 - 554 pages
...is worth ten years of life spent under the azure skies of enslaved and enervated countries : — " A day, an hour of virtuous liberty. Is worth a whole eternity of bondage !" Addison's Cato. Taking a stroll on the skirts of the city, without any fixed object,... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pages
...considerest not the BEAM that is in thy OWN eye ? 470. And Nathan said unto David, THOU art the man. 471. A day, an HOUR of virtuous liberty, is worth a whole eternity of bondage. 472. I'm tortured even to madness when I THINK of the proud victor. 473. 'Tis all a libel,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 548 pages
...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 herald is arrived... | |
 | R T. Linnington - 1837 - 274 pages
...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 herald is arriv'd... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1839 - 362 pages
...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 variation... | |
 | 1841 - 986 pages
...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... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840 - 350 pages
...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... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840 - 344 pages
...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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...— | 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, | a her'ald... | |
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A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 
