 | 1859 - 828 pàgines
...And all our frugal ancestors were bless'd In humble virtues, and a rural life ; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be...honour is a private station. Por. I hope my father does riot recommend A life to Portius,-that he scorns himself. Cato. Farewell, my friends! If there be any... | |
 | 1859 - 836 pàgines
...And all our frugal ancestors were blees'd In humble virtues, and a rural life; There live retir'd, pray for the peace of Rome ; Content thyself to be...When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The poet of honour i> a private station. Por. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius, that... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1860 - 750 pàgines
...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 ruling passion of the French Revolution, has been declared... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pàgines
...Sabine field, Where the great censor toiTd with his own hands, And all our frugal ancestors were bless'd In humble virtues, and a rural life ! There live retired;...— When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, Пю poet of honour is a private station. Addimn. BETIBEMENT AND STUDY-Uee to be made of. It U a mean... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1862 - 462 pàgines
...And all our frugal ancestors were bless'd In humble virtues and a rural life. There live retired : content thyself to be Obscurely good. When vice prevails,...bear sway, The post of honour is a private station ! * Farewell, my friends ! If there be any of you Who dare not trust the victor's clemency, Know, there... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pàgines
...: Title and profit I resign ; The post of honour shall be mine. GAY.— Fable II. Part II. Line M. Content thyself to be obscurely good : When vice prevails,...bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON. — Cato, Act IV. (Cato to Juba.) Honour's a sacred tie, the law of Kings It ought not to... | |
 | 1864 - 332 pàgines
...And all our frugal ancestors were bleea'd Tu humble virtues, and a rural life : There live retir'd : Content thyself to be obscurely good : "When vice...impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private statiou. Por. I hope, my father doe» not recommend A life to Porcins, that he всогпя himself.... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1909 - 882 pàgines
...stars, and thinks it luxury.' ' I think the Romans call it Stoicism.' ' My voice is still for war.' ' When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.' Not to mention : — 'The woman who deliberates is lost,' And the eternal: — 'Plato, thou reasonest... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - 1867 - 448 pàgines
...And all our frugal ancestors were bless'd In humble virtues and a rural life. There live retired : content thyself to be Obscurely good. When vice prevails,...bear sway The post of honour is a private station 1 * Farewell, my friends I If there be any of you Who dare not trust the victor's clemency, Know, there... | |
 | 1867 - 336 pàgines
...ancestors were bless'd In humble virtues, and a rural life : There live retir'd: Content thyself to bo obscurely good: When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is я private station. Por. I hope, my father does not recommend A life to Porcias, that he scorns himself.... | |
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. 
