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" When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. "
Bell's British Theatre: Consisting of the Most Esteemed English Plays - Página 78
editado por - 1797
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Memoirs and Correspondence Illustrative of the History of the ..., Volumen1

Mallet du Pan (M., Jacques) - 1852 - 514 páginas
...others, whose integrity equalled their sagacity, remembered the fine lines of Addison : VOL. i. o "' When impious men bear sway The post of honour is a private station.' "* After this retirement of two of its leaders, the rest of the party merged into the right side, although...
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The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century: A Series of Lectures

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 páginas
...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...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp ..., Volumen1

Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 páginas
...rural life. There live retired, pray for the peace of Rome : Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. PORTIUS. I hope my father does not recommend A life to Portius that he scorns himself. CATO. Farewel,...
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A cyclopædia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 páginas
...IMPIETY. To keep that oath were more impiety, Than Jephtha's, when he sacrificed his daughter. Khakspere. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. Addison. The Eternal reigns in all through boundless space; Unwise! who first designed him form or...
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Lives of the English Poets: Smith-Savage

Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 páginas
...side.' Jb. In 1737, when the Prince of Wales (post, POPE, 217) saw Cato acted, ' where Cato says : — " When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station " [Act iv. sc. 4], there was a loud huzza, with a great clap, in which clap the Prince himself joined...
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The English humourists

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1905 - 428 páginas
...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...
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Stokes' Encyclopedia of Familiar Quotations: Containing Five Thousand ...

1906 - 810 páginas
...Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Vanity of Human Wishes, line 308 Vice. — • When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station. ADDISON, Calo, iv, 4 Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness. BURKE, On the French...
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The Writings of Samuel Adams: 1770-1773

Samuel Adams - 1906 - 482 páginas
...sincerity, and perhaps he may hereafter receive the reward of a baronet for his fidelity and courage. ' When vice prevails and impious men bear sway, the post of honour is the private station.' ARTICLE SIGNED " CANDIDUS. [Boston Gazette, August 5, 1771.] Messieurs EDES &...
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Colonial Currency Reprints, 1682-1751: With an Introduction and Notes, Volumen35

Andrew McFarland Davis - 1911 - 602 páginas
...VIRTUE ! O MY COUNTRY ! " A Thousand secret Terrors rise in my Soul: " How shall I save my Friends — " When Vice prevails, and Impious Men bear Sway, " The Post of Honour is a private Station. O my Countrymen ! wont you believe when you Feel\ [11] What fine Stories were told you about Liberty,...
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The Outward Appearance

Stanley Victor Makower - 1912 - 328 páginas
...an open volume of Addison towards the lady with the following lines marked in pencil : — " Where vice prevails and impious men bear sway The post of honour is a private station." " No doubt," said he, when he had allowed the lady time to glance at the couplet, " the world will...
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