| 1828 - 598 páginas
...freedom. The labours of these monarch s were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success ; by the honest pride of virtue,...general happiness of which they were the authors.' — Idem, vol. ip 126. The 'superstition barbare de la Palestine' (as a bolder infidel phrases it)... | |
| George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 530 páginas
...debts. The labours of that excellent Governor were at length repaid by the immense reward which waited on their success — by the honest pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of beholding the increasing prosperity, of which he was the principal author. A just, but melancholy, reflexion embittered,... | |
| Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 páginas
...liberty, " and were pleased with considering themselves " as the accountable ministers of the laws." " pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of "...general happiness of which they " were the authors "." And yet, in the short but mild and pacific reign of Nerva, though he rescinded the cruel edicts... | |
| Charles Hay Cameron - 1853 - 220 páginas
...labours of these monarchs," he remarks, " were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of virtue, and...have recollected the instability of a happiness which depended on the character of a single man. The fatal moment was perhaps approaching when some licentious... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 páginas
...success; by the n«precv honest pride of virtue, and by the exquisite delight of be- nm! "* holding the general happiness of which they were the authors....have recollected the instability of a happiness which depended on the character of a single man. The fatal moment was perhaps approaching, when some licentious... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 páginas
...princes to whom the foregoing passage refers) were overpaid by the immense reward that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of virtue, and...general happiness, of which they were the authors," immediately subjoins, — " A just but melancholy reflection embittered the noblest of human enjoyments.... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 páginas
...that inseparably waited on their success, by the honest pride of * [Decline and Fall, &c., Chap, iii.] virtue, and by the exquisite delight of beholding...general happiness, of which they were the authors," immediately subjoins, — " A just but melancholy reflection embittered the noblest of human enjoyments.... | |
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